🎤 Vocal Technique Recognition 🗣️¶
Final Report (MIE1517 Introduction to Deep Learning) - Team 20¶
Steven Kim (1002071134), Tabitha Kim (1006788736), Kwansoo Lee (1012855830), Taeyoung Lee (1009781791)
You can also review our project in our Github page Fianl-Report_Team20
Figure 0. Image generated by ChatGPT
1. Brief Description of the Project¶
This project focuses on Vocal Technique Recognition using deep learning and PyTorch. The goal is to automatically classify different vocal singing techniques from audio recordings, which has applications in music education, vocal training, and audio analysis.
Vocal technique recognition is a challenging audio classification task that requires understanding subtle differences in how singers produce sounds. Traditional approaches to analyzing vocal techniques often require expert knowledge and manual annotation, but deep learning enables automated classification of these nuanced audio patterns. This project demonstrates how modern audio representation learning models can be effectively applied to recognize six distinct vocal techniques: Breathy, Glissando, Pharyngeal, Vibrato, Falsetto, and Mixed Voice.
Introduction to Vocal Technique Recognition¶
Vocal techniques are specific methods singers use to produce different sounds and express emotions. Each technique involves subtle variations in vocal cord vibration, breath control, and resonance that create distinct acoustic signatures. For example:
- Breathy: Produces a soft, airy quality by allowing excess air to escape
- Falsetto: Uses a higher register with lighter vocal cord vibration
- Vibrato: Creates a slight pitch oscillation for expressiveness
- Glissando: Involves smooth pitch transitions between notes
- Pharyngeal: Uses throat resonance for a specific timbre
- Mixed Voice: Combines chest and head voice registers
The challenge lies in capturing these nuanced differences from raw audio waveforms, where techniques may overlap and vary across singers, languages, and musical contexts.
The Dataset: GTSinger¶
This project uses the GTSinger dataset Zhang et al., 2024, which addresses the scarcity of high-quality, multi-technique singing datasets. GTSinger provides:
- 80.59 hours of high-quality studio-recorded singing voices (the largest recorded singing dataset)
- 20 professional singers across 9 languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian)
- Phoneme-level annotations for six singing techniques with controlled comparison groups
- Realistic music scores for real-world composition scenarios
- Manual alignments and style labels for comprehensive annotations
Each song in GTSinger includes both a control group (natural singing) and a technique group (intensive technique application) under the same lyrics. Here, we use only a technique group to capture the features in more realistic singing, allowing the model to learn broader stylistic patterns.
Dataset Access: The GTSinger dataset can be downloaded from Google Drive. The full dataset is also available through the official repository and paper. For this project, we use a subset of the dataset focusing on the six vocal techniques mentioned above. The dataset used for training is curated and described in section 4.
Project Overview and Pipeline¶
The overall approach combines transfer learning with a pre-trained audio representation model (MERT) and a lightweight classification head. The pipeline, illustrated in Figure 1 below, consists of three main stages: (1) audio pre-processing and normalization, (2) feature extraction using a frozen MERT backbone, and (3) classification using a trainable 1D-CNN head. This approach enables efficient training while leveraging rich audio representations learned from large-scale music datasets.
2. Approach¶
How to Solve the Problem¶
Vocal technique recognition can be approached in several ways:
- End-to-End Learning: Training a model from scratch on raw audio waveforms or spectrograms
- Traditional Feature Engineering: Using handcrafted features (MFCCs, chroma, spectral features) with classical ML classifiers
- Transfer Learning: Leveraging pre-trained audio representation models as feature extractors
- Hybrid Approaches: Combining multiple feature types or ensemble methods
Each approach has trade-offs. End-to-end learning requires large datasets and computational resources. Traditional features may miss complex patterns. Transfer learning balances efficiency and performance by leveraging representations learned from large-scale music datasets.
The Strategy We Are Going to Use¶
This project implements vocal technique classification using a transfer learning approach with a pre-trained audio representation model. The strategy consists of three main stages:
Data Pre-processing: Raw audio from the GTSinger dataset is normalized (converted to mono, resampled to 24 kHz to match MERT's requirements, and padded/truncated to fixed length) and split into train/validation/test sets (70%/15%/15%)
Feature Extraction with MERT: A frozen MERT (Music Audio Representation Transformer) backbone extracts high-level audio features. MERT outputs frame-level embeddings (1024-dimensional vectors) that encode pitch, timbre, and temporal context of the vocal performance
Classification Head: Three alternative classifier architectures were evaluated to process the sequence of MERT embeddings:
- 1D-CNN Classifier (primary): A lightweight 1D convolutional neural network with the following architecture:
- Temporal Conv1D layer: Kernel size 5, reduces feature dimension from 1024 → 128 channels, followed by BatchNorm1d, GELU activation, and Dropout (p=0.3)
- Global Average Pooling: Aggregates the temporal dimension to produce a single 128-dimensional vector per audio clip
- Fully Connected layers: Two linear layers (128 → 64, then 64 → 6) with GELU activation and Dropout (p=0.3) between them, producing logits for the 6 technique classes
- Tensor flow: MERT outputs [B, T, 1024] frame-level embeddings → Conv1D produces [B, T, 128] → Global Average Pooling yields [B, 128] → FC layers output [B, 6] logits
- CRNN Classifier: A Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network combining 1D convolutions with LSTM layers for temporal modeling
- Transformer Classifier: A Transformer-based architecture using self-attention mechanisms to capture long-range temporal dependencies
- Classifier Selection: After evaluating all three architectures, the 1D-CNN classifier was selected as the final model due to its superior performance on the validation set. The 1D-CNN achieved the best balance between accuracy and computational efficiency, demonstrating that the temporal patterns in MERT embeddings can be effectively captured through lightweight convolutional operations without the added complexity of recurrent layers or self-attention mechanisms. This finding suggests that the frame-level features extracted by MERT already encode sufficient temporal context, making a simple temporal convolution sufficient for the classification task.
- 1D-CNN Classifier (primary): A lightweight 1D convolutional neural network with the following architecture:
Why This Approach Works¶
The key innovation in this project is the use of a frozen pre-trained MERT model as a feature extractor, combined with a lightweight trainable classification head. This transfer learning approach offers several advantages:
- Efficiency: By freezing MERT, we leverage rich audio representations learned from large-scale music datasets without retraining the entire model
- Data Efficiency: Requires minimal training data and computational resources compared to training from scratch
- Generalization: Pre-trained representations capture universal audio patterns that transfer well to the specific task of vocal technique recognition
- Flexibility: The lightweight classification head can be easily swapped or modified to experiment with different architectures
Loss Function We Optimize¶
For this multi-class classification task, we use Cross-Entropy Loss (also known as Categorical Cross-Entropy or Softmax Loss), which is the standard loss function for classification problems with multiple mutually exclusive classes.
Mathematical Formulation:
Given a batch of predictions (logits) from our model and the true class labels, the cross-entropy loss is computed as:
$$\mathcal{L}_{CE} = -\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}\sum_{c=1}^{C} y_{i,c} \log(\hat{y}_{i,c})$$
where:
- $N$ is the batch size
- $C$ is the number of classes (6 in our case: Breathy, Glissando, Pharyngeal, Vibrato, Falsetto, Mixed Voice)
- $y_{i,c}$ is the true label (1 if sample $i$ belongs to class $c$, 0 otherwise) - this is a one-hot encoded vector
- $\hat{y}_{i,c}$ is the predicted probability that sample $i$ belongs to class $c$, computed using the softmax function:
$$\hat{y}_{i,c} = \frac{\exp(z_{i,c})}{\sum_{j=1}^{C}\exp(z_{i,j})}$$
where $z_{i,c}$ are the raw logits (unnormalized scores) output by the final linear layer of our classifier.
Why Cross-Entropy Loss?
Probabilistic Interpretation: Cross-entropy loss measures the difference between the predicted probability distribution and the true distribution. It encourages the model to output high confidence for the correct class and low confidence for incorrect classes.
Numerical Stability: PyTorch's
CrossEntropyLosscombines the softmax and negative log-likelihood operations in a numerically stable way, preventing overflow/underflow issues that can occur when computing exponentials of large logits.Gradient Properties: The gradient of cross-entropy loss with respect to the logits has a simple form that provides strong learning signals, especially when predictions are wrong.
Multi-Class Classification: Unlike binary cross-entropy (used for binary classification), cross-entropy loss naturally handles multiple classes and ensures that the predicted probabilities sum to 1 across all classes.
In our implementation, the model outputs raw logits [B, 6] for each audio sample in the batch, and nn.CrossEntropyLoss internally applies softmax and computes the negative log-likelihood. The loss is then backpropagated to update the trainable parameters of the classification head.
Evaluation Metrics: Model performance is evaluated using accuracy (percentage of correctly classified samples) and cross-entropy loss on the validation and test sets. The confusion matrix is also computed to analyze per-class performance and identify any technique-specific challenges.
3. Implementation of The Vocal Technique Recognizer¶
3-1. Downloading the GTsinger Dataset¶
We processed the dataset by removing unnecessary files (musicxml, json and txt formats), leaving only .wav files for our project to reduce the size of the dataset. And we only used 'English' singing dataset from the original GTsinger dataset (Google Drive) due to a training time limitation and memory issues.
Please find the link GTsinger Dataset - Team20 to download the used dataset for this project and put the zip file into the data folder. Then, the the right below code will unzip the file properly.
import zipfile
from pathlib import Path
zip_path = Path("./data/GTsinger.zip")
extract_dir = Path("./data")
if not zip_path.exists():
raise FileNotFoundError(f"Zip file not found: {zip_path}")
with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_ref:
zip_ref.extractall(extract_dir)
print("✅ GTsinger.zip extracted successfully into data/")
✅ GTsinger.zip extracted successfully into data/
3-2. Data Splitting Strategy¶
The primary goal of the data split was to ensure a balanced distribution of singing techniques (labels) across all singer IDs. To achieve this, the split was performed within each singer's samples, applying the defined ratios:
- Train: 70%
- Validation: 15%
- Test: 15%
from collections import defaultdict
import random
import json
from pathlib import Path
# 1) Set the root directory
ROOT_DIR = Path("./data/GTsinger/English")
OUTPUT_JSON = ROOT_DIR / "metadata.json"
RANDOM_SEED = 42
# train/val/test dataset ratios
SPLIT_RATIOS = {
"train": 0.7,
"val": 0.15,
"test": 0.15,
}
def technique_label(tech_folder: str, group_folder: str):
# Basic techniques
if tech_folder == "Breathy" and group_folder == "Breathy_Group":
return "Breathy"
if tech_folder == "Glissando" and group_folder == "Glissando_Group":
return "Glissando"
if tech_folder == "Pharyngeal" and group_folder == "Pharyngeal_Group":
return "Pharyngeal"
if tech_folder == "Vibrato" and group_folder == "Vibrato_Group":
return "Vibrato"
if tech_folder == "Mixed_Voice_and_Falsetto":
if group_folder == "Falsetto_Group":
return "Falsetto"
if group_folder == "Mixed_Voice_Group":
return "Mixed_Voice"
return None
return None
random.seed(RANDOM_SEED)
# samples_by_singer[label][singer_id] = [sample, sample, ...]
samples_by_singer = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list))
# 2) Walk through all files
for wav in ROOT_DIR.rglob("*.wav"):
# skip MacOS junk
if "__MACOSX" in wav.parts:
continue
# make path relative to ROOT_DIR
rel = wav.relative_to(ROOT_DIR)
# [singer_id, tech_folder, song_title, group_folder, filename]
parts = rel.parts
if len(parts) != 5:
print("Skipping unexpected path:", rel)
continue
singer_id, tech_folder, song_title, group_folder, filename = parts
label = technique_label(tech_folder, group_folder)
if label is None:
continue
sample = {
"filepath": str(wav),
"singer_id": singer_id,
"tech_folder": tech_folder,
"song_title": song_title,
"group_folder": group_folder,
"filename": filename,
"technique": label,
}
samples_by_singer[label][singer_id].append(sample)
# 3) Split into Train, Valid, and Test
splits = {"train": [], "val": [], "test": []}
for label, singer_dict in samples_by_singer.items():
for singer_id, samples in singer_dict.items():
random.shuffle(samples)
n = len(samples)
n_train = int(n * SPLIT_RATIOS["train"])
n_val = int(n * SPLIT_RATIOS["val"])
n_test = n - n_train - n_val
splits["train"].extend(samples[:n_train])
splits["val"].extend(samples[n_train:n_train + n_val])
splits["test"].extend(samples[n_train + n_val:])
# 4) Save a meta json file
with open(OUTPUT_JSON, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
json.dump(splits, f, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False)
print(f"Saved metadata to {OUTPUT_JSON}")
Saved metadata to data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json
3-3. Visualization of dataset¶
We perform the visualization the loaded dataset. The absolute number of training, validation, and test samples for each singer illustrates the data distribution across singer IDs. Also, as shown in the number of samples per split, the data is well split into the defined ratios. While the Mixed_Voice and Falsetto classes contain approximately twice as many samples as the other techniques, we intentionally did not downsample them to prevent unnecessary information loss, and to keep the dataset representative of the original dataset.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
splits = ["train", "val", "test"]
# Load metadata
meta_path = Path(metadata_file)
with open(meta_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
all_meta = json.load(f)
print("=== Dataset Summary ===")
# Count samples per split
split_counts = {}
for split in splits:
if split in all_meta:
split_counts[split] = len(all_meta[split])
print(f"{split:<10}: {len(all_meta[split])} samples")
else:
print(f"{split:<10}: NOT FOUND in metadata.json")
# singer_id -> [train, val, test]
singer_split_counts = defaultdict(lambda: {"train": 0, "val": 0, "test": 0})
for split in ["train", "val", "test"]:
for item in all_meta[split]:
singer_split_counts[item["singer_id"]][split] += 1
singers = sorted(singer_split_counts.keys())
train_counts = np.array([singer_split_counts[s]["train"] for s in singers])
val_counts = np.array([singer_split_counts[s]["val"] for s in singers])
test_counts = np.array([singer_split_counts[s]["test"] for s in singers])
# --- Plot (ABSOLUTE COUNTS) ---
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5))
plt.bar(singers, train_counts, label="Train")
plt.bar(singers, val_counts, bottom=train_counts, label="Val")
plt.bar(singers, test_counts, bottom=train_counts + val_counts, label="Test")
plt.ylabel("Number of Samples")
plt.title("Singer-wise Train / Val / Test Sample Counts")
plt.legend()
plt.grid(axis="y", linestyle="--", alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
# --- Plot split distribution ---
print(f"\n=== Number of Samples per Split ===")
plt.figure(figsize=(6, 4))
plt.bar(split_counts.keys(), split_counts.values(), color=["skyblue", "orange", "green"])
plt.title("Number of Samples per Split")
plt.ylabel("Samples")
plt.grid(axis="y", linestyle="--", alpha=0.3)
plt.show()
# --- Class distribution per split ---
for split in splits:
if split not in all_meta:
continue
print(f"\n=== Class Distribution: {split.upper()} ===")
items = all_meta[split]
class_counts = defaultdict(int)
for m in items:
class_counts[m["technique"]] += 1
# Print counts
for tech, cnt in sorted(class_counts.items()):
print(f"{tech:<15} : {cnt:4d}")
# Bar chart
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4))
plt.bar(class_counts.keys(), class_counts.values())
plt.title(f"Class Distribution for {split}")
plt.xlabel("Technique")
plt.ylabel("Count")
plt.xticks(rotation=45)
plt.grid(axis="y", linestyle="--", alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
=== Dataset Summary === train : 1925 samples val : 405 samples test : 432 samples
=== Number of Samples per Split ===
=== Class Distribution: TRAIN === Breathy : 252 Falsetto : 486 Glissando : 246 Mixed_Voice : 488 Pharyngeal : 243 Vibrato : 210
=== Class Distribution: VAL === Breathy : 53 Falsetto : 103 Glissando : 51 Mixed_Voice : 103 Pharyngeal : 51 Vibrato : 44
=== Class Distribution: TEST === Breathy : 56 Falsetto : 108 Glissando : 56 Mixed_Voice : 109 Pharyngeal : 55 Vibrato : 48
3-4. Model Architecture¶
Our end-to-end pipeline consists of three main stages:
(1) Data pre-processing
(2) Feature extraction with a frozen MERT backbone
(3) Lightweight 1D-CNN classification head.
Figure 1. Overall pipeline
Data Pre-Processing¶
The raw audio is normalized into a consistent format before feature extraction:
All audio is resampled to 24 kHz and converted to mono
Amplitude normalization using max absolute value
Fixed 10-second duration via truncation or zero-padding
This produces uniformly shaped audio tensors that can be fed into the pre-trained audio model.
Feature Extraction with MERT¶
For our transfer learning task we use MERT, a large pre-trained audio representation model.
MERT is kept frozen (no gradient updates) and only used as a feature extractor.
Given a batch of pre-processed audio:
MERT outputs a sequence of embeddings:
$$ \text{MERT}(x) \rightarrow \mathbf{Z} \in \mathbb{R}^{B \times T_{\text{frames}} \times 1024} $$
where:
- $B$ = batch size
- $T_{\text{frames}}$ = number of time frames
- 1024 = embedding dimension for each frame
Intuitively, each 1024-dimensional vector encodes high-level information about the pitch, timbre, and temporal context of the vocal performance.
Figure 2. MERT architecture*
* Li, Yizhi, et al. "Mert: Acoustic music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised training." arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00107 (2023).
1D-CNN Classification Head¶
The sequence of MERT embeddings is then fed into a 1D-CNN that performs the final technique classification.
The CNN only operates in the feature space (over time), not directly on raw waveforms.
The head consists of:
① Temporal Conv1D block
- Conv1D with kernel size (k = 5), input channels 1024 and output channels 128
- BatchNorm
- GELU activation
- Dropout ( p = 0.3 )
This layer reduces each frame’s feature dimension from 1024 → 128 while allowing the model to look at short temporal neighborhoods.
② Global Average Pooling (GAP) over time
- Aggregates the sequence of frame-wise features into a single 128-D vector per clip:
$$ \mathbb{R}^{B \times T \times 128} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{B \times 128} $$
- This makes the classifier robust to variable-length inputs and focuses on the overall technique rather than frame-level noise.
③ Fully Connected (FC) head
- Linear 128 → 64
- GELU activation
- Dropout ( p = 0.5 )
- Final Linear 64 → 6 (one logit per technique class)
The final 6-dimensional logit vector is passed through a softmax at inference time to produce the predicted technique label for each input clip.
Comparison of Classifier Architectures¶
| Classifier | Temporal modeling | Complexity | Outcome in our project |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1D-CNN | Conv1D over frames + GAP | Low (few params) | Best validation performance; chosen as final model. |
| CRNN | Conv1D front-end + BiLSTM | Medium–High | Some overfitting; no clear gain over 1D-CNN. |
| Transformer | Self-attention over all frames | High (most params) | Slowest and least stable; did not beat 1D-CNN. |
Qualitative strengths and limitations
- 1D-CNN: Fast to train/infer, stable optimization, captures local temporal patterns well; less explicit global context.
- CRNN: Can model both local patterns (conv) and longer-term structure (LSTM); heavier and showed larger train–val gap on our dataset.
- Transformer: Very flexible global context modeling in principle; highest computational cost and parameters, and training was slower and less stable for our data size.
This still gives a clear comparison, but the table itself is narrow enough to fit comfortably in one view.
3-5. Loading and Pre-processing Audio Dataset¶
To verify our transfer learning approach with MERT is suitable for this project, we include two types of feature extraction modes.
1) Mel Spectrogram Mode:
128 mel features
FFT size = 2048, hop length = 512
Frequency range: 50–8000 Hz
Log-power compression + per-sample z-score normalization
Output shape: [T,128]
2) MERT Mode:
1028 MERT features
The pre-processed waveform input to pretrained MERT
Features are extracted as described above.
Output feature shape: [T,1024]
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModel
from typing import Optional, Literal
import librosa
import soundfile as sf
import numpy as np
import json
from pathlib import Path
from tqdm import tqdm
import os
import csv
class GTsingerAudioDataset(Dataset):
"""
Dataset for GTsinger technique recognition
mode = "mert" -> returns MERT features: [T, 1024]
mode = "mel" -> returns Mel spectrogram: [1, T, n_mels]
"""
def __init__(
self,
metadata_file: str,
split: str,
mode: Literal["mert", "mel"] = "mert",
# MERT-related (required if mode == "mert")
mert_processor=None,
mert_model=None,
# Mel-spectrogram related (used if mode == "mel")
n_mels: int = 128,
# Audio settings
max_length_sec: float = 10.0,
target_sr: int = 24000,
data_root: Optional[str] = None,
seed: int = 42,
):
# Reproducibility
self.seed = seed
random.seed(seed)
np.random.seed(seed)
assert mode in ["mert", "mel"], "mode must be 'mert' or 'mel'"
self.mode = mode
self.mert_processor = mert_processor
self.mert_model = mert_model
self.n_mels = n_mels
self.max_length_sec = max_length_sec
self.target_sr = target_sr
# ---- metadata path ----
metadata_path = Path(metadata_file)
if not metadata_path.is_absolute():
metadata_path = Path(metadata_file).absolute()
with open(metadata_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
all_meta = json.load(f)
if split not in all_meta:
raise ValueError(
f"Split '{split}' not found in {metadata_path}. "
f"Available splits: {list(all_meta.keys())}"
)
all_samples = []
for k, v in all_meta.items():
if isinstance(v, list):
all_samples.extend(v)
techniques = sorted({m["technique"] for m in all_samples})
self.technique_map = {tech: idx for idx, tech in enumerate(techniques)}
self.idx_to_tech = {idx: tech for tech, idx in self.technique_map.items()}
self.num_classes = len(self.technique_map)
# print("[Dataset] Technique → index mapping:")
# for tech, idx in self.technique_map.items():
# print(f" {tech:<15} -> {idx}")
# ---- split based on medadata ----
self.metadata = all_meta[split]
self.split = split
# ---- data_root ----
if data_root is not None:
self.data_root = Path(data_root)
else:
self.data_root = Path(".").absolute()
print(f"[Dataset] Split '{split}': {len(self.metadata)} samples")
if self.mode == "mert":
assert self.mert_processor is not None and self.mert_model is not None, \
"mert_processor and mert_model are required when mode='mert'"
def _resolve_audio_path(self, rel_or_abs: str) -> Path:
p = Path(rel_or_abs)
if p.is_absolute():
return p
return self.data_root / p
def _load_and_fix_length(self, audio_path: Path) -> np.ndarray:
try:
audio, sr = librosa.load(str(audio_path), sr=self.target_sr, mono=True)
# amplitude normalize
if audio.max() > 0:
audio = audio / np.abs(audio).max()
target_len = int(self.max_length_sec * self.target_sr)
if audio.shape[0] > target_len:
audio = audio[:target_len]
elif audio.shape[0] < target_len:
audio = np.pad(audio, (0, target_len - audio.shape[0]), mode="constant")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[Dataset:{self.split}] Error loading {audio_path}: {e}")
audio = np.random.randn(int(self.max_length_sec * self.target_sr)).astype(np.float32)
return audio.astype(np.float32)
def __len__(self):
return len(self.metadata)
def __getitem__(self, idx):
meta = self.metadata[idx]
filepath = meta["filepath"]
audio_path = self._resolve_audio_path(filepath)
audio = self._load_and_fix_length(audio_path)
# Labels
tech_name = meta["technique"]
if tech_name not in self.technique_map:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown technique '{tech_name}' in meta.json")
label = torch.tensor(self.technique_map[tech_name], dtype=torch.long)
# 1) Mel spectrogram (without a pretrained model)
if self.mode == "mel":
mel_spec = librosa.feature.melspectrogram(
y=audio,
sr=self.target_sr,
n_fft=2048,
hop_length=512,
n_mels=self.n_mels,
fmin=50,
fmax=8000,
)
mel_spec = librosa.power_to_db(mel_spec, ref=np.max)
# per-sample normalize
mel_spec = (mel_spec - mel_spec.mean()) / (mel_spec.std() + 1e-9)
# mel_spec: numpy [n_mels, time]
mel_spec = torch.from_numpy(mel_spec).float() # [n_mels, T]
mel_spec = mel_spec.transpose(0, 1) # [T, n_mels]
return {
"features": mel_spec, # [T, n_mels]
"label": label,
"filepath": filepath,
}
# 2) MERT processor (with a pretrained model)
elif self.mode == "mert":
with torch.no_grad():
inputs = self.mert_processor(
audio,
sampling_rate=self.target_sr,
return_tensors="pt",
)
# device
inputs = {k: v.to(self.mert_model.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
hidden_states = self.mert_model(**inputs).last_hidden_state # [1, T, 1024]
return {
"features": hidden_states.squeeze(0), # [T, 1024]
"label": label,
"filepath": filepath,
}
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3-6. Vocal Technique Recognizers (Classifier Models)¶
We train three classifiers to select the best classification models at the end. These models classify the techniques of voice recordings that are preprocessed through Mel Spectrogram or the MERT model.
1) 1D-CNN Classifier:
Operates on frame-level sequential features extracted from Mel Spectrograms or MERT (
input shape: [B,T,F])Applies a 1D convolution over the temporal axis to capture short-term temporal patterns
Uses:
1D Convolution with kernel size 5
Batch Normalization for training stability
GELU activation for non-linearity
Dropout for regularization
Global average pooling over time converts variable-length sequences into a fixed-length vector
A fully connected classifier head maps hidden features to the final technique classes
Designed for lightweight and efficient temporal modeling
class CNN1D_Classifier(nn.Module):
"""
1D CNN classifier over time for frame-level features.
"""
def __init__(self, in_channels, hidden=128, kernel_size=5, n_classes=6, dropout=0.3):
super().__init__()
self.conv_layers = nn.Sequential(
nn.Conv1d(in_channels, hidden, kernel_size=kernel_size,
padding=kernel_size // 2),
nn.BatchNorm1d(hidden),
nn.GELU(),
nn.Dropout(dropout),
)
self.classifier = nn.Sequential(
nn.Dropout(dropout),
nn.Linear(hidden, hidden // 2),
nn.GELU(),
nn.Dropout(dropout),
nn.Linear(hidden // 2, n_classes),
)
def forward(self, z_btf: torch.Tensor):
# z_btf: [B, T, F]
x = z_btf.transpose(1, 2) # [B, F, T]
x = self.conv_layers(x) # [B, hidden, T]
x = x.mean(dim=2) # [B, hidden]
return self.classifier(x) # [B, n_classes]
2) Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network Classifier:
Designed to jointly model short-term spectral patterns and long-term temporal dynamics
Operates on frame-level sequential features from Mel Spectrograms or MERT (
input shape: [B,T,F])First applies a 1D temporal convolution to extract local temporal patterns
Convolution Uses:
Kernel size 5 with padding
Batch Normalization + GELU activation
Dropout for regularization
The convolutional features are then forwarded to a Bidirectional LSTM.
LSTM Uses:
Captures long-term temporal dependencies
Uses a two-layer stacked Bidirectional LSTM to capture long-term temporal dependencies
The bidirectional LSTM output is globally averaged over time.
Then, a fully connected classifier head maps the aggregated temporal features to the final technique classes.
class CRNN_Classifier(nn.Module):
"""
CRNN classifier over time for frame-level features.
"""
def __init__(self, in_channels, cnn_hidden=128, rnn_hidden=128, rnn_layers=2, n_classes=6, dropout=0.3):
super().__init__()
self.conv = nn.Sequential(
nn.Conv1d(in_channels, cnn_hidden, kernel_size=5, padding=2),
nn.BatchNorm1d(cnn_hidden),
nn.GELU(),
nn.Dropout(dropout),
)
self.rnn = nn.LSTM(
input_size=cnn_hidden,
hidden_size=rnn_hidden,
num_layers=rnn_layers,
batch_first=True,
bidirectional=True,
dropout=dropout if rnn_layers > 1 else 0.0,
)
self.classifier = nn.Sequential(
nn.Dropout(dropout),
nn.Linear(rnn_hidden * 2, n_classes),
)
def forward(self, z_btf: torch.Tensor):
# z_btf: [B, T, F]
x = z_btf.transpose(1, 2) # [B, F, T]
x = self.conv(x) # [B, cnn_hidden, T]
x = x.transpose(1, 2) # [B, T, cnn_hidden]
x, _ = self.rnn(x) # [B, T, 2*rnn_hidden]
x = x.mean(dim=1) # [B, 2*rnn_hidden]
return self.classifier(x) # [B, n_classes]
3) Transformer Classifier:
Applies a linear input projection to map frame-level features 𝐹 into the Transformer embedding dimension to model global temporal dependencies across the entire time sequence using self-attention
Uses a single-layer Transformer Encoder with:
Multi-head self-attention (𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 = 4)
Feed-forward network with hidden size 2 × 𝑑𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙
Then, global average pooling over time is performed to obtain a fixed-length representation
A fully connected classifier head maps the the pooled temporal features to the final technique classes.
class Transformer_Classifier(nn.Module):
"""
Transformer classifier over time for frame-level features.
"""
def __init__(self, in_channels, d_model=128, nhead=4, n_classes=6, dropout=0.3):
super().__init__()
self.input_proj = nn.Linear(in_channels, d_model) # F -> d_model
encoder_layer = nn.TransformerEncoderLayer(
d_model=d_model,
nhead=nhead,
dim_feedforward=d_model * 2,
dropout=dropout,
batch_first=True,
)
self.transformer = nn.TransformerEncoder(encoder_layer, num_layers=1)
self.classifier = nn.Sequential(
nn.Dropout(dropout),
nn.Linear(d_model, n_classes),
)
def forward(self, z_btc: torch.Tensor):
# z_btc: [B, T, F]
x = self.input_proj(z_btc) # [B, T, d_model]
x = self.transformer(x) # [B, T, d_model]
x = x.mean(dim=1) # global average over time -> [B, d_model]
return self.classifier(x) # [B, n_classes]
3-7. Train Helpers¶
plot_history: Visualizes these metrics by saving loss and accuracy curves as
.PNGfiles.save_history_csv: Stores the training and validation loss and accuracy for each epoch in a
.CSVfile.run_epoch: Performs one epoch of training or validation depending on the mode. In training mode, the model computes the loss, backpropagates gradients, and updates the network parameters using the optimizer. In validation mode, the model only performs forward inference without gradient updates. For both modes, the function computes and returns the average loss and classification accuracy over the entire dataset.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def plot_history(history, results_dir: Path):
results_dir = Path(results_dir)
results_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
epochs = history["epoch"]
# Loss curve
plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.plot(epochs, history["train_loss"], label="Train Loss")
plt.plot(epochs, history["val_loss"], label="Val Loss")
plt.xlabel("Epoch")
plt.ylabel("Loss")
plt.legend()
plt.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig(results_dir / "loss_curve.png", dpi=150)
plt.close()
# Accuracy curve
plt.figure(figsize=(6,4))
plt.plot(epochs, history["train_acc"], label="Train Acc")
plt.plot(epochs, history["val_acc"], label="Val Acc")
plt.xlabel("Epoch")
plt.ylabel("Accuracy")
plt.legend()
plt.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig(results_dir / "accuracy_curve.png", dpi=150)
plt.close()
def save_history_csv(history, results_dir: Path):
results_dir = Path(results_dir)
csv_path = results_dir / "metrics_history.csv"
with open(csv_path, "w", newline="") as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["epoch", "train_loss", "train_acc", "val_loss", "val_acc"])
for i in range(len(history["epoch"])):
writer.writerow([
history["epoch"][i],
history["train_loss"][i],
history["train_acc"][i],
history["val_loss"][i],
history["val_acc"][i],
])
def run_epoch(model, dataloader, criterion, optimizer, device, train: bool):
if train:
model.train()
else:
model.eval()
total_loss = 0.0
correct = 0
total = 0
for batch in tqdm(dataloader, desc="Train" if train else "Val", leave=False):
features = batch["features"].to(device) # [B, T, F]
labels = batch["label"].to(device) # [B]
if train:
optimizer.zero_grad()
with torch.set_grad_enabled(train):
logits = model(features) # [B, n_classes]
loss = criterion(logits, labels)
if train:
loss.backward()
optimizer.step()
total_loss += loss.item()
preds = logits.argmax(dim=1)
correct += (preds == labels).sum().item()
total += labels.size(0)
avg_loss = total_loss / max(1, len(dataloader))
acc = correct / max(1, total)
return avg_loss, acc
3-8. Training Configuration¶
In train_gtsinger function, there are
Mode Selection: Selects pre-training mode (Mel-spectrogram or MERT features, loading when
mode="mert")Dataset Loads: Builds training and validation dataaset from the metadata.json
Model Initialization: initializes one of the three classifiers (CNN1D, CRNN, or Transformer)
Optimizer and Loss Function: Uses Adam optimizer and Cross-Entropy Loss
Dropout: Sets dropout rate as 0.3 to prevent overfitting
Saving:
- The best model based on validation loss for evaluation on the test dataset.
- Intermediate checkpoints every 10 epochs
- Training history as
CSVandPNGfor visualization of accuracy and loss curves
def train_gtsinger(
metadata_file: str,
data_root: str,
mode: str = "mel", # "mel: no pre-trained model" or "mert: pre-trained model"
model_type: str = "cnn", # Classifiers ["cnn", "crnn", "transformer"]
n_mels: int = 128,
batch_size: int = 32,
epochs: int = 100,
lr: float = 1e-3,
weight_decay: float = 0.0,
dropout: float = 0.3,
results_dir: str = "./results",
seed: int = 42,
):
# Reproducibility
random.seed(seed)
np.random.seed(seed)
torch.manual_seed(seed)
torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed)
assert mode in ["mel", "mert"]
assert model_type in ["cnn", "crnn", "transformer"]
device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
print(f"\n=== Training GTsinger ({mode}, {model_type}) on {device} ===")
# Pretrained model selection
mert_processor, mert_model = None, None
if mode == "mert":
print("\nLoading MERT model...")
model_name = "m-a-p/MERT-v1-330M"
mert_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
mert_model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
mert_model.to(device)
mert_model.eval()
else:
print("\nMode = mel → MERT not loaded.")
# Dataset / DataLoader
metadata_file = str(metadata_file)
data_root = str(data_root)
print("\nCreating datasets...")
train_dataset = GTsingerAudioDataset(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
split="train",
mode=mode,
mert_processor=mert_processor,
mert_model=mert_model,
n_mels=n_mels,
max_length_sec=10.0,
target_sr=24000,
data_root=data_root,
)
val_dataset = GTsingerAudioDataset(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
split="val",
mode=mode,
mert_processor=mert_processor,
mert_model=mert_model,
n_mels=n_mels,
max_length_sec=10.0,
target_sr=24000,
data_root=data_root,
)
# features shape: [T, F] → F
sample_feat = train_dataset[0]["features"] # [T, F]
in_channels = sample_feat.shape[-1]
n_classes = train_dataset.num_classes
print(f"\nInput feature dim (F): {in_channels}")
print(f"Num classes: {n_classes}")
# Data loading reproducibility
g = torch.Generator()
g.manual_seed(seed)
# DataLoaders - Batch
train_loader = DataLoader(
train_dataset,
batch_size=batch_size,
shuffle=True,
worker_init_fn=lambda worker_id: np.random.seed(seed + worker_id),
generator=g
)
val_loader = DataLoader(
val_dataset,
batch_size=batch_size,
shuffle=False,
worker_init_fn=lambda worker_id: np.random.seed(seed + worker_id),
generator=g
)
# Classifier Models
print(f"\nInitializing {model_type.upper()} model...")
if model_type == "cnn":
model = CNN1D_Classifier(
in_channels=in_channels,
hidden=128,
kernel_size=5,
n_classes=n_classes,
dropout=dropout,
).to(device)
elif model_type == "crnn":
model = CRNN_Classifier(
in_channels=in_channels,
cnn_hidden=128,
rnn_hidden=128,
rnn_layers=2,
n_classes=n_classes,
dropout=dropout,
).to(device)
elif model_type == "transformer":
model = Transformer_Classifier(
in_channels=in_channels,
d_model=128,
nhead=4,
n_classes=n_classes,
dropout=dropout,
).to(device)
total_params = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters())
print(f"Model parameters: {total_params:,}")
# Loss / Optim / Scheduler
criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
optimizer = optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay)
scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.ReduceLROnPlateau(
optimizer, mode="min", patience=3, factor=0.5)
# Results dir
results_dir = Path(results_dir) / f"{mode}_{model_type}"
results_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
# Label mapping
with open(results_dir / "label_mapping.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
json.dump(train_dataset.idx_to_tech, f, indent=2)
# Saving training history
history = {
"epoch": [],
"train_loss": [],
"train_acc": [],
"val_loss": [],
"val_acc": [],
}
best_val_loss = float("inf")
best_model_path = results_dir / "best_model.pth"
print(f"\nStart training for {epochs} epochs...")
for epoch in range(1, epochs + 1):
print(f"\nEpoch {epoch}/{epochs}")
train_loss, train_acc = run_epoch(
model, train_loader, criterion, optimizer, device, train=True
)
val_loss, val_acc = run_epoch(
model, val_loader, criterion, optimizer, device, train=False
)
print(f"Train Loss: {train_loss:.4f}, Train Acc: {train_acc:.4f}")
print(f"Val Loss: {val_loss:.4f}, Val Acc: {val_acc:.4f}")
history["epoch"].append(epoch)
history["train_loss"].append(train_loss)
history["train_acc"].append(train_acc)
history["val_loss"].append(val_loss)
history["val_acc"].append(val_acc)
scheduler.step(val_loss)
# checkpoint every 10 epochs
if epoch % 10 == 0:
torch.save(model.state_dict(), results_dir / f"epoch_{epoch:03d}.pth")
# best model
if val_loss < best_val_loss:
best_val_loss = val_loss
torch.save(model.state_dict(), best_model_path)
print(f"✓ New best model saved (val_loss={best_val_loss:.4f})")
# save csv/plot and update at every epoch
save_history_csv(history, results_dir)
plot_history(history, results_dir)
print("\n=== Training finished ===")
print(f"Best val loss: {best_val_loss:.4f}")
print(f"Best model path: {best_model_path.resolve()}")
epochs = history["epoch"]
# Loss curve
plt.figure(figsize=(6, 4))
plt.plot(epochs, history["train_loss"], label="Train Loss")
plt.plot(epochs, history["val_loss"], label="Val Loss")
plt.xlabel("Epoch")
plt.ylabel("Loss")
plt.legend()
plt.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
# Accuracy curve
plt.figure(figsize=(6, 4))
plt.plot(epochs, history["train_acc"], label="Train Acc")
plt.plot(epochs, history["val_acc"], label="Val Acc")
plt.xlabel("Epoch")
plt.ylabel("Accuracy")
plt.legend()
plt.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
return model, history
(1) Training [Mel Spectrogram] + [1DCNN Classifier]
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./" # root dir
# (1) No-pretrained model + 1DCNN Classifier
mode = "mel"
model_type = "cnn"
model, history = train_gtsinger(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
data_root=data_root,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
n_mels=128,
batch_size=32,
epochs=100,
lr=1e-3,
dropout=0.3,
seed=42,
results_dir=f"./train/GT_results",
)
=== Training GTsinger (mel, cnn) on cuda === Mode = mel → MERT not loaded. Creating datasets... [Dataset] Split 'train': 1925 samples [Dataset] Split 'val': 405 samples Input feature dim (F): 128 Num classes: 6 Initializing CNN model... Model parameters: 90,950 Results dir: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mel_cnn Start training for 100 epochs... Epoch 1/100
Train Loss: 1.4407, Train Acc: 0.4577 Val Loss: 1.1635, Val Acc: 0.5704 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.1635) Epoch 2/100
Train Loss: 1.2070, Train Acc: 0.5273 Val Loss: 1.0910, Val Acc: 0.6025 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.0910) Epoch 3/100
Train Loss: 1.1004, Train Acc: 0.5673 Val Loss: 1.0108, Val Acc: 0.6173 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.0108) Epoch 4/100
Train Loss: 1.0369, Train Acc: 0.5891 Val Loss: 0.9515, Val Acc: 0.6346 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9515) Epoch 5/100
Train Loss: 1.0227, Train Acc: 0.6016 Val Loss: 0.9200, Val Acc: 0.6667 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9200) Epoch 6/100
Train Loss: 0.9753, Train Acc: 0.6088 Val Loss: 0.9119, Val Acc: 0.6420 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9119) Epoch 7/100
Train Loss: 0.9554, Train Acc: 0.6197 Val Loss: 0.8983, Val Acc: 0.6642 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8983) Epoch 8/100
Train Loss: 0.9316, Train Acc: 0.6384 Val Loss: 0.8642, Val Acc: 0.6691 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8642) Epoch 9/100
Train Loss: 0.9024, Train Acc: 0.6374 Val Loss: 0.8363, Val Acc: 0.6815 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8363) Epoch 10/100
Train Loss: 0.8870, Train Acc: 0.6582 Val Loss: 0.8473, Val Acc: 0.6617 Epoch 11/100
Train Loss: 0.8575, Train Acc: 0.6551 Val Loss: 0.8181, Val Acc: 0.6840 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8181) Epoch 12/100
Train Loss: 0.8568, Train Acc: 0.6494 Val Loss: 0.8144, Val Acc: 0.6864 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8144) Epoch 13/100
Train Loss: 0.8995, Train Acc: 0.6436 Val Loss: 0.7983, Val Acc: 0.6963 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7983) Epoch 14/100
Train Loss: 0.8468, Train Acc: 0.6868 Val Loss: 0.8006, Val Acc: 0.6889 Epoch 15/100
Train Loss: 0.8348, Train Acc: 0.6743 Val Loss: 0.7857, Val Acc: 0.7012 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7857) Epoch 16/100
Train Loss: 0.8165, Train Acc: 0.6696 Val Loss: 0.7837, Val Acc: 0.6889 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7837) Epoch 17/100
Train Loss: 0.7934, Train Acc: 0.6769 Val Loss: 0.7544, Val Acc: 0.7037 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7544) Epoch 18/100
Train Loss: 0.8142, Train Acc: 0.6868 Val Loss: 0.7635, Val Acc: 0.7111 Epoch 19/100
Train Loss: 0.8039, Train Acc: 0.6894 Val Loss: 0.7303, Val Acc: 0.7284 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7303) Epoch 20/100
Train Loss: 0.7660, Train Acc: 0.6904 Val Loss: 0.7282, Val Acc: 0.7235 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7282) Epoch 21/100
Train Loss: 0.7668, Train Acc: 0.7034 Val Loss: 0.7159, Val Acc: 0.7086 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7159) Epoch 22/100
Train Loss: 0.7608, Train Acc: 0.7070 Val Loss: 0.7393, Val Acc: 0.7012 Epoch 23/100
Train Loss: 0.7282, Train Acc: 0.7200 Val Loss: 0.7271, Val Acc: 0.7235 Epoch 24/100
Train Loss: 0.7563, Train Acc: 0.7200 Val Loss: 0.7503, Val Acc: 0.6889 Epoch 25/100
Train Loss: 0.7289, Train Acc: 0.7091 Val Loss: 0.7239, Val Acc: 0.7407 Epoch 26/100
Train Loss: 0.7063, Train Acc: 0.7268 Val Loss: 0.6896, Val Acc: 0.7309 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6896) Epoch 27/100
Train Loss: 0.6848, Train Acc: 0.7403 Val Loss: 0.6718, Val Acc: 0.7531 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6718) Epoch 28/100
Train Loss: 0.6538, Train Acc: 0.7517 Val Loss: 0.6731, Val Acc: 0.7383 Epoch 29/100
Train Loss: 0.6503, Train Acc: 0.7481 Val Loss: 0.6651, Val Acc: 0.7432 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6651) Epoch 30/100
Train Loss: 0.6673, Train Acc: 0.7543 Val Loss: 0.6551, Val Acc: 0.7531 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6551) Epoch 31/100
Train Loss: 0.6665, Train Acc: 0.7465 Val Loss: 0.6437, Val Acc: 0.7481 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6437) Epoch 32/100
Train Loss: 0.6691, Train Acc: 0.7584 Val Loss: 0.6529, Val Acc: 0.7284 Epoch 33/100
Train Loss: 0.6744, Train Acc: 0.7569 Val Loss: 0.6781, Val Acc: 0.7333 Epoch 34/100
Train Loss: 0.6498, Train Acc: 0.7574 Val Loss: 0.6498, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 35/100
Train Loss: 0.6422, Train Acc: 0.7496 Val Loss: 0.6456, Val Acc: 0.7506 Epoch 36/100
Train Loss: 0.6022, Train Acc: 0.7730 Val Loss: 0.6552, Val Acc: 0.7506 Epoch 37/100
Train Loss: 0.6217, Train Acc: 0.7714 Val Loss: 0.6387, Val Acc: 0.7728 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6387) Epoch 38/100
Train Loss: 0.6490, Train Acc: 0.7481 Val Loss: 0.6276, Val Acc: 0.7679 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6276) Epoch 39/100
Train Loss: 0.5977, Train Acc: 0.7719 Val Loss: 0.6355, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 40/100
Train Loss: 0.5874, Train Acc: 0.7730 Val Loss: 0.6295, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 41/100
Train Loss: 0.5939, Train Acc: 0.7730 Val Loss: 0.6404, Val Acc: 0.7432 Epoch 42/100
Train Loss: 0.6109, Train Acc: 0.7579 Val Loss: 0.6300, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 43/100
Train Loss: 0.5752, Train Acc: 0.7797 Val Loss: 0.6229, Val Acc: 0.7654 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6229) Epoch 44/100
Train Loss: 0.5824, Train Acc: 0.7797 Val Loss: 0.6189, Val Acc: 0.7605 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6189) Epoch 45/100
Train Loss: 0.5881, Train Acc: 0.7688 Val Loss: 0.6283, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 46/100
Train Loss: 0.5895, Train Acc: 0.7823 Val Loss: 0.6188, Val Acc: 0.7605 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6188) Epoch 47/100
Train Loss: 0.5798, Train Acc: 0.7714 Val Loss: 0.6194, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 48/100
Train Loss: 0.6017, Train Acc: 0.7699 Val Loss: 0.6212, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 49/100
Train Loss: 0.5722, Train Acc: 0.7834 Val Loss: 0.6145, Val Acc: 0.7580 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6145) Epoch 50/100
Train Loss: 0.5623, Train Acc: 0.7787 Val Loss: 0.6194, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 51/100
Train Loss: 0.5902, Train Acc: 0.7709 Val Loss: 0.6200, Val Acc: 0.7556 Epoch 52/100
Train Loss: 0.5766, Train Acc: 0.7777 Val Loss: 0.6125, Val Acc: 0.7630 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6125) Epoch 53/100
Train Loss: 0.5501, Train Acc: 0.7865 Val Loss: 0.6205, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 54/100
Train Loss: 0.5748, Train Acc: 0.7912 Val Loss: 0.6122, Val Acc: 0.7605 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6122) Epoch 55/100
Train Loss: 0.5581, Train Acc: 0.7948 Val Loss: 0.6264, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 56/100
Train Loss: 0.5816, Train Acc: 0.7969 Val Loss: 0.6117, Val Acc: 0.7679 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6117) Epoch 57/100
Train Loss: 0.5705, Train Acc: 0.7855 Val Loss: 0.6159, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 58/100
Train Loss: 0.5668, Train Acc: 0.7886 Val Loss: 0.6183, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 59/100
Train Loss: 0.5739, Train Acc: 0.7745 Val Loss: 0.6121, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 60/100
Train Loss: 0.5423, Train Acc: 0.7964 Val Loss: 0.6245, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 61/100
Train Loss: 0.5592, Train Acc: 0.7881 Val Loss: 0.6194, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 62/100
Train Loss: 0.5347, Train Acc: 0.7953 Val Loss: 0.6105, Val Acc: 0.7630 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6105) Epoch 63/100
Train Loss: 0.5575, Train Acc: 0.7870 Val Loss: 0.6196, Val Acc: 0.7556 Epoch 64/100
Train Loss: 0.5594, Train Acc: 0.7870 Val Loss: 0.6172, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 65/100
Train Loss: 0.5879, Train Acc: 0.7745 Val Loss: 0.6130, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 66/100
Train Loss: 0.5486, Train Acc: 0.7896 Val Loss: 0.6134, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 67/100
Train Loss: 0.5599, Train Acc: 0.8026 Val Loss: 0.6103, Val Acc: 0.7704 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6103) Epoch 68/100
Train Loss: 0.5741, Train Acc: 0.7922 Val Loss: 0.6080, Val Acc: 0.7605 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6080) Epoch 69/100
Train Loss: 0.5646, Train Acc: 0.7771 Val Loss: 0.6078, Val Acc: 0.7679 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6078) Epoch 70/100
Train Loss: 0.5666, Train Acc: 0.7881 Val Loss: 0.6170, Val Acc: 0.7728 Epoch 71/100
Train Loss: 0.5494, Train Acc: 0.7855 Val Loss: 0.6163, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 72/100
Train Loss: 0.5384, Train Acc: 0.7912 Val Loss: 0.6102, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 73/100
Train Loss: 0.5476, Train Acc: 0.7979 Val Loss: 0.6096, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 74/100
Train Loss: 0.5500, Train Acc: 0.7834 Val Loss: 0.6087, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 75/100
Train Loss: 0.5475, Train Acc: 0.7938 Val Loss: 0.6042, Val Acc: 0.7654 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6042) Epoch 76/100
Train Loss: 0.5498, Train Acc: 0.7990 Val Loss: 0.6265, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 77/100
Train Loss: 0.5858, Train Acc: 0.7834 Val Loss: 0.6042, Val Acc: 0.7580 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6042) Epoch 78/100
Train Loss: 0.5585, Train Acc: 0.7797 Val Loss: 0.6077, Val Acc: 0.7728 Epoch 79/100
Train Loss: 0.5626, Train Acc: 0.7865 Val Loss: 0.6118, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 80/100
Train Loss: 0.5498, Train Acc: 0.7823 Val Loss: 0.6022, Val Acc: 0.7654 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6022) Epoch 81/100
Train Loss: 0.5677, Train Acc: 0.7938 Val Loss: 0.6164, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 82/100
Train Loss: 0.5476, Train Acc: 0.7896 Val Loss: 0.6119, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 83/100
Train Loss: 0.5343, Train Acc: 0.7958 Val Loss: 0.6117, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 84/100
Train Loss: 0.5439, Train Acc: 0.7901 Val Loss: 0.6059, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 85/100
Train Loss: 0.5694, Train Acc: 0.7813 Val Loss: 0.6032, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 86/100
Train Loss: 0.5654, Train Acc: 0.7870 Val Loss: 0.6055, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 87/100
Train Loss: 0.5605, Train Acc: 0.7932 Val Loss: 0.6071, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 88/100
Train Loss: 0.5681, Train Acc: 0.7886 Val Loss: 0.6068, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 89/100
Train Loss: 0.5682, Train Acc: 0.7834 Val Loss: 0.6136, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 90/100
Train Loss: 0.5369, Train Acc: 0.7995 Val Loss: 0.6036, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 91/100
Train Loss: 0.5720, Train Acc: 0.7771 Val Loss: 0.6081, Val Acc: 0.7728 Epoch 92/100
Train Loss: 0.5248, Train Acc: 0.7995 Val Loss: 0.6043, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 93/100
Train Loss: 0.5471, Train Acc: 0.7969 Val Loss: 0.6089, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 94/100
Train Loss: 0.5667, Train Acc: 0.7927 Val Loss: 0.6102, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 95/100
Train Loss: 0.5338, Train Acc: 0.8057 Val Loss: 0.6072, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 96/100
Train Loss: 0.5679, Train Acc: 0.7787 Val Loss: 0.6100, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 97/100
Train Loss: 0.5703, Train Acc: 0.7714 Val Loss: 0.6057, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 98/100
Train Loss: 0.5309, Train Acc: 0.8052 Val Loss: 0.6139, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 99/100
Train Loss: 0.5807, Train Acc: 0.7813 Val Loss: 0.6034, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 100/100
Train Loss: 0.5745, Train Acc: 0.7751 Val Loss: 0.6109, Val Acc: 0.7728 === Training finished === Best val loss: 0.6022 Best model path: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mel_cnn/best_model.pth
(2) Training [Mel Spectrogram] + [CRNN Classifier]
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./" # root dir
# (2) No-pretrained model + CRNN Classifier
mode = "mel"
model_type = "crnn"
model, history = train_gtsinger(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
data_root=data_root,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
n_mels=128,
batch_size=32,
epochs=100,
lr=1e-3,
dropout=0.3,
seed=42,
results_dir=f"./train/GT_results",
)
=== Training GTsinger (mel, crnn) on cuda === Mode = mel → MERT not loaded. Creating datasets... [Dataset] Split 'train': 1925 samples [Dataset] Split 'val': 405 samples Input feature dim (F): 128 Num classes: 6 Initializing CRNN model... Model parameters: 743,302 Start training for 100 epochs... Epoch 1/100
Train Loss: 1.3860, Train Acc: 0.4571 Val Loss: 1.1799, Val Acc: 0.5407 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.1799) Epoch 2/100
Train Loss: 1.1165, Train Acc: 0.5652 Val Loss: 1.5074, Val Acc: 0.4716 Epoch 3/100
Train Loss: 1.0158, Train Acc: 0.5938 Val Loss: 0.9350, Val Acc: 0.6296 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9350) Epoch 4/100
Train Loss: 0.9330, Train Acc: 0.6197 Val Loss: 0.9489, Val Acc: 0.6296 Epoch 5/100
Train Loss: 0.8746, Train Acc: 0.6587 Val Loss: 0.8706, Val Acc: 0.6716 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8706) Epoch 6/100
Train Loss: 0.8057, Train Acc: 0.6857 Val Loss: 0.9085, Val Acc: 0.6321 Epoch 7/100
Train Loss: 0.7887, Train Acc: 0.6909 Val Loss: 0.8173, Val Acc: 0.6667 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8173) Epoch 8/100
Train Loss: 0.7170, Train Acc: 0.7138 Val Loss: 0.7688, Val Acc: 0.6938 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7688) Epoch 9/100
Train Loss: 0.7418, Train Acc: 0.6966 Val Loss: 0.7803, Val Acc: 0.7086 Epoch 10/100
Train Loss: 0.6404, Train Acc: 0.7439 Val Loss: 0.7089, Val Acc: 0.7136 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7089) Epoch 11/100
Train Loss: 0.6183, Train Acc: 0.7423 Val Loss: 0.7067, Val Acc: 0.7259 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7067) Epoch 12/100
Train Loss: 0.5963, Train Acc: 0.7636 Val Loss: 0.7381, Val Acc: 0.7185 Epoch 13/100
Train Loss: 0.5506, Train Acc: 0.7808 Val Loss: 0.9020, Val Acc: 0.6864 Epoch 14/100
Train Loss: 0.5659, Train Acc: 0.7751 Val Loss: 0.6365, Val Acc: 0.7506 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6365) Epoch 15/100
Train Loss: 0.5426, Train Acc: 0.7974 Val Loss: 0.6268, Val Acc: 0.7383 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6268) Epoch 16/100
Train Loss: 0.4710, Train Acc: 0.8244 Val Loss: 0.8060, Val Acc: 0.7160 Epoch 17/100
Train Loss: 0.5322, Train Acc: 0.7917 Val Loss: 0.7005, Val Acc: 0.7284 Epoch 18/100
Train Loss: 0.4881, Train Acc: 0.8166 Val Loss: 0.6779, Val Acc: 0.7506 Epoch 19/100
Train Loss: 0.4412, Train Acc: 0.8306 Val Loss: 0.5855, Val Acc: 0.7778 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5855) Epoch 20/100
Train Loss: 0.3658, Train Acc: 0.8540 Val Loss: 0.6569, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 21/100
Train Loss: 0.3829, Train Acc: 0.8603 Val Loss: 0.7177, Val Acc: 0.7136 Epoch 22/100
Train Loss: 0.4074, Train Acc: 0.8478 Val Loss: 0.6827, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 23/100
Train Loss: 0.4026, Train Acc: 0.8514 Val Loss: 0.5726, Val Acc: 0.7728 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5726) Epoch 24/100
Train Loss: 0.3315, Train Acc: 0.8738 Val Loss: 0.6305, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 25/100
Train Loss: 0.3676, Train Acc: 0.8706 Val Loss: 0.5837, Val Acc: 0.8025 Epoch 26/100
Train Loss: 0.2951, Train Acc: 0.8945 Val Loss: 0.6253, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 27/100
Train Loss: 0.2859, Train Acc: 0.8878 Val Loss: 0.6545, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 28/100
Train Loss: 0.2703, Train Acc: 0.9018 Val Loss: 0.8648, Val Acc: 0.7235 Epoch 29/100
Train Loss: 0.4136, Train Acc: 0.8436 Val Loss: 0.6536, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 30/100
Train Loss: 0.2688, Train Acc: 0.9003 Val Loss: 0.6165, Val Acc: 0.7778 Epoch 31/100
Train Loss: 0.2346, Train Acc: 0.9164 Val Loss: 0.6498, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 32/100
Train Loss: 0.2170, Train Acc: 0.9325 Val Loss: 0.6519, Val Acc: 0.7778 Epoch 33/100
Train Loss: 0.2157, Train Acc: 0.9252 Val Loss: 0.7180, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 34/100
Train Loss: 0.1891, Train Acc: 0.9377 Val Loss: 0.6379, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 35/100
Train Loss: 0.1527, Train Acc: 0.9543 Val Loss: 0.6256, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 36/100
Train Loss: 0.1197, Train Acc: 0.9668 Val Loss: 0.6315, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 37/100
Train Loss: 0.1482, Train Acc: 0.9647 Val Loss: 0.6670, Val Acc: 0.7802 Epoch 38/100
Train Loss: 0.1220, Train Acc: 0.9662 Val Loss: 0.6609, Val Acc: 0.8000 Epoch 39/100
Train Loss: 0.1129, Train Acc: 0.9647 Val Loss: 0.6953, Val Acc: 0.7753 Epoch 40/100
Train Loss: 0.0972, Train Acc: 0.9756 Val Loss: 0.6650, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 41/100
Train Loss: 0.0885, Train Acc: 0.9777 Val Loss: 0.6889, Val Acc: 0.7877 Epoch 42/100
Train Loss: 0.0963, Train Acc: 0.9714 Val Loss: 0.6581, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 43/100
Train Loss: 0.0817, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.6815, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 44/100
Train Loss: 0.0834, Train Acc: 0.9782 Val Loss: 0.6721, Val Acc: 0.7778 Epoch 45/100
Train Loss: 0.0875, Train Acc: 0.9782 Val Loss: 0.6956, Val Acc: 0.8025 Epoch 46/100
Train Loss: 0.0858, Train Acc: 0.9761 Val Loss: 0.7311, Val Acc: 0.7728 Epoch 47/100
Train Loss: 0.0807, Train Acc: 0.9803 Val Loss: 0.6819, Val Acc: 0.8000 Epoch 48/100
Train Loss: 0.0913, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.7104, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 49/100
Train Loss: 0.0850, Train Acc: 0.9771 Val Loss: 0.6974, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 50/100
Train Loss: 0.0790, Train Acc: 0.9766 Val Loss: 0.7033, Val Acc: 0.7877 Epoch 51/100
Train Loss: 0.0817, Train Acc: 0.9782 Val Loss: 0.7172, Val Acc: 0.7852 Epoch 52/100
Train Loss: 0.0757, Train Acc: 0.9818 Val Loss: 0.6874, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 53/100
Train Loss: 0.0729, Train Acc: 0.9855 Val Loss: 0.7304, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 54/100
Train Loss: 0.0752, Train Acc: 0.9803 Val Loss: 0.6986, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 55/100
Train Loss: 0.0844, Train Acc: 0.9813 Val Loss: 0.6707, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 56/100
Train Loss: 0.0806, Train Acc: 0.9782 Val Loss: 0.6999, Val Acc: 0.7827 Epoch 57/100
Train Loss: 0.0953, Train Acc: 0.9797 Val Loss: 0.6707, Val Acc: 0.7827 Epoch 58/100
Train Loss: 0.0738, Train Acc: 0.9813 Val Loss: 0.7098, Val Acc: 0.7852 Epoch 59/100
Train Loss: 0.0739, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.6956, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 60/100
Train Loss: 0.0806, Train Acc: 0.9797 Val Loss: 0.7200, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 61/100
Train Loss: 0.0764, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.6980, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 62/100
Train Loss: 0.0709, Train Acc: 0.9834 Val Loss: 0.6938, Val Acc: 0.7852 Epoch 63/100
Train Loss: 0.0738, Train Acc: 0.9745 Val Loss: 0.7071, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 64/100
Train Loss: 0.0735, Train Acc: 0.9813 Val Loss: 0.7014, Val Acc: 0.8000 Epoch 65/100
Train Loss: 0.0900, Train Acc: 0.9756 Val Loss: 0.7153, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 66/100
Train Loss: 0.0772, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.7039, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 67/100
Train Loss: 0.0744, Train Acc: 0.9860 Val Loss: 0.6940, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 68/100
Train Loss: 0.0775, Train Acc: 0.9766 Val Loss: 0.7025, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 69/100
Train Loss: 0.0743, Train Acc: 0.9823 Val Loss: 0.7175, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 70/100
Train Loss: 0.1022, Train Acc: 0.9797 Val Loss: 0.6893, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 71/100
Train Loss: 0.0792, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.7138, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 72/100
Train Loss: 0.0737, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.6913, Val Acc: 0.8000 Epoch 73/100
Train Loss: 0.0727, Train Acc: 0.9844 Val Loss: 0.7120, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 74/100
Train Loss: 0.0676, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.7104, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 75/100
Train Loss: 0.0677, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.6924, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 76/100
Train Loss: 0.0953, Train Acc: 0.9756 Val Loss: 0.6812, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 77/100
Train Loss: 0.0759, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.7045, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 78/100
Train Loss: 0.0730, Train Acc: 0.9818 Val Loss: 0.6966, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 79/100
Train Loss: 0.0781, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.7092, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 80/100
Train Loss: 0.0690, Train Acc: 0.9855 Val Loss: 0.6906, Val Acc: 0.7877 Epoch 81/100
Train Loss: 0.0767, Train Acc: 0.9777 Val Loss: 0.6811, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 82/100
Train Loss: 0.0693, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.7021, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 83/100
Train Loss: 0.0787, Train Acc: 0.9777 Val Loss: 0.6867, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 84/100
Train Loss: 0.0702, Train Acc: 0.9829 Val Loss: 0.7115, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 85/100
Train Loss: 0.0769, Train Acc: 0.9829 Val Loss: 0.7065, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 86/100
Train Loss: 0.0850, Train Acc: 0.9797 Val Loss: 0.6857, Val Acc: 0.7877 Epoch 87/100
Train Loss: 0.0761, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.6999, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 88/100
Train Loss: 0.0752, Train Acc: 0.9860 Val Loss: 0.7092, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 89/100
Train Loss: 0.0853, Train Acc: 0.9766 Val Loss: 0.7041, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 90/100
Train Loss: 0.0894, Train Acc: 0.9829 Val Loss: 0.7004, Val Acc: 0.7901 Epoch 91/100
Train Loss: 0.0786, Train Acc: 0.9771 Val Loss: 0.6845, Val Acc: 0.7951 Epoch 92/100
Train Loss: 0.0702, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.6890, Val Acc: 0.7852 Epoch 93/100
Train Loss: 0.0748, Train Acc: 0.9818 Val Loss: 0.6892, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 94/100
Train Loss: 0.0865, Train Acc: 0.9797 Val Loss: 0.6754, Val Acc: 0.8049 Epoch 95/100
Train Loss: 0.0734, Train Acc: 0.9771 Val Loss: 0.6859, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 96/100
Train Loss: 0.0783, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.6975, Val Acc: 0.7975 Epoch 97/100
Train Loss: 0.0800, Train Acc: 0.9771 Val Loss: 0.6827, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 98/100
Train Loss: 0.0786, Train Acc: 0.9792 Val Loss: 0.6598, Val Acc: 0.7926 Epoch 99/100
Train Loss: 0.0909, Train Acc: 0.9751 Val Loss: 0.6840, Val Acc: 0.8000 Epoch 100/100
Train Loss: 0.0703, Train Acc: 0.9849 Val Loss: 0.7095, Val Acc: 0.7926 === Training finished === Best val loss: 0.5726 Best model path: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mel_crnn/best_model.pth
(3) Training [Mel Spectrogram] + [Transformer Classifier]
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./" # root dir
# (3) No-pretrained model + Transformer Classifier
mode = "mel"
model_type = "transformer"
model, history = train_gtsinger(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
data_root=data_root,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
n_mels=128,
batch_size=32,
epochs=100,
lr=1e-3,
dropout=0.3,
seed=42,
results_dir=f"./train/GT_results",
)
=== Training GTsinger (mel, transformer) on cuda === Mode = mel → MERT not loaded. Creating datasets... [Dataset] Split 'train': 1930 samples [Dataset] Split 'val': 412 samples Input feature dim (F): 128 Num classes: 6 Initializing TRANSFORMER model... Model parameters: 149,766 Results dir: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mel_transformer Start training for 100 epochs... Epoch 1/100
Train Loss: 1.3751, Train Acc: 0.4560 Val Loss: 1.1690, Val Acc: 0.5510 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.1690) Epoch 2/100
Train Loss: 1.1205, Train Acc: 0.5627 Val Loss: 1.0550, Val Acc: 0.5995 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.0550) Epoch 3/100
Train Loss: 1.0027, Train Acc: 0.6036 Val Loss: 0.9678, Val Acc: 0.6092 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9678) Epoch 4/100
Train Loss: 0.9529, Train Acc: 0.6197 Val Loss: 0.9534, Val Acc: 0.6481 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9534) Epoch 5/100
Train Loss: 0.9091, Train Acc: 0.6394 Val Loss: 0.9052, Val Acc: 0.6505 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.9052) Epoch 6/100
Train Loss: 0.8119, Train Acc: 0.6762 Val Loss: 0.8457, Val Acc: 0.6650 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8457) Epoch 7/100
Train Loss: 0.7957, Train Acc: 0.6870 Val Loss: 0.8881, Val Acc: 0.6408 Epoch 8/100
Train Loss: 0.7243, Train Acc: 0.7166 Val Loss: 0.8386, Val Acc: 0.6699 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8386) Epoch 9/100
Train Loss: 0.6667, Train Acc: 0.7280 Val Loss: 0.7857, Val Acc: 0.7184 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7857) Epoch 10/100
Train Loss: 0.6373, Train Acc: 0.7373 Val Loss: 0.7352, Val Acc: 0.7403 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7352) Epoch 11/100
Train Loss: 0.6186, Train Acc: 0.7596 Val Loss: 0.7759, Val Acc: 0.7160 Epoch 12/100
Train Loss: 0.5503, Train Acc: 0.7933 Val Loss: 0.8068, Val Acc: 0.6893 Epoch 13/100
Train Loss: 0.5317, Train Acc: 0.7969 Val Loss: 0.7429, Val Acc: 0.7306 Epoch 14/100
Train Loss: 0.5159, Train Acc: 0.7984 Val Loss: 0.7378, Val Acc: 0.7209 Epoch 15/100
Train Loss: 0.3846, Train Acc: 0.8627 Val Loss: 0.7906, Val Acc: 0.7209 Epoch 16/100
Train Loss: 0.3750, Train Acc: 0.8591 Val Loss: 0.7687, Val Acc: 0.7282 Epoch 17/100
Train Loss: 0.3187, Train Acc: 0.8793 Val Loss: 0.8372, Val Acc: 0.7306 Epoch 18/100
Train Loss: 0.3030, Train Acc: 0.8927 Val Loss: 0.7804, Val Acc: 0.7403 Epoch 19/100
Train Loss: 0.2715, Train Acc: 0.9021 Val Loss: 0.7655, Val Acc: 0.7621 Epoch 20/100
Train Loss: 0.2384, Train Acc: 0.9244 Val Loss: 0.7712, Val Acc: 0.7403 Epoch 21/100
Train Loss: 0.2216, Train Acc: 0.9358 Val Loss: 0.7498, Val Acc: 0.7621 Epoch 22/100
Train Loss: 0.2136, Train Acc: 0.9326 Val Loss: 0.7934, Val Acc: 0.7451 Epoch 23/100
Train Loss: 0.1973, Train Acc: 0.9425 Val Loss: 0.7847, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 24/100
Train Loss: 0.1818, Train Acc: 0.9472 Val Loss: 0.7669, Val Acc: 0.7791 Epoch 25/100
Train Loss: 0.1834, Train Acc: 0.9451 Val Loss: 0.7799, Val Acc: 0.7767 Epoch 26/100
Train Loss: 0.1743, Train Acc: 0.9497 Val Loss: 0.8064, Val Acc: 0.7791 Epoch 27/100
Train Loss: 0.1697, Train Acc: 0.9585 Val Loss: 0.7958, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 28/100
Train Loss: 0.1631, Train Acc: 0.9622 Val Loss: 0.7963, Val Acc: 0.7840 Epoch 29/100
Train Loss: 0.1553, Train Acc: 0.9585 Val Loss: 0.8133, Val Acc: 0.7670 Epoch 30/100
Train Loss: 0.1565, Train Acc: 0.9611 Val Loss: 0.8090, Val Acc: 0.7791 Epoch 31/100
Train Loss: 0.1511, Train Acc: 0.9575 Val Loss: 0.8133, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 32/100
Train Loss: 0.1496, Train Acc: 0.9611 Val Loss: 0.8183, Val Acc: 0.7767 Epoch 33/100
Train Loss: 0.1482, Train Acc: 0.9632 Val Loss: 0.8121, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 34/100
Train Loss: 0.1446, Train Acc: 0.9642 Val Loss: 0.8173, Val Acc: 0.7791 Epoch 35/100
Train Loss: 0.1454, Train Acc: 0.9653 Val Loss: 0.8184, Val Acc: 0.7767 Epoch 36/100
Train Loss: 0.1416, Train Acc: 0.9632 Val Loss: 0.8232, Val Acc: 0.7840 Epoch 37/100
Train Loss: 0.1436, Train Acc: 0.9596 Val Loss: 0.8249, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 38/100
Train Loss: 0.1430, Train Acc: 0.9663 Val Loss: 0.8276, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 39/100
Train Loss: 0.1418, Train Acc: 0.9658 Val Loss: 0.8253, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 40/100
Train Loss: 0.1399, Train Acc: 0.9663 Val Loss: 0.8238, Val Acc: 0.7816 Epoch 41/100
Train Loss: 0.1392, Train Acc: 0.9689 Val Loss: 0.8273, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 42/100
Train Loss: 0.1386, Train Acc: 0.9642 Val Loss: 0.8284, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 43/100
Train Loss: 0.1387, Train Acc: 0.9648 Val Loss: 0.8293, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 44/100
Train Loss: 0.1387, Train Acc: 0.9663 Val Loss: 0.8303, Val Acc: 0.7694 Epoch 45/100
Train Loss: 0.1420, Train Acc: 0.9648 Val Loss: 0.8300, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 46/100
Train Loss: 0.1364, Train Acc: 0.9684 Val Loss: 0.8317, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 47/100
Train Loss: 0.1376, Train Acc: 0.9663 Val Loss: 0.8322, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 48/100
Train Loss: 0.1369, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8316, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 49/100
Train Loss: 0.1337, Train Acc: 0.9668 Val Loss: 0.8320, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 50/100
Train Loss: 0.1395, Train Acc: 0.9710 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 51/100
Train Loss: 0.1358, Train Acc: 0.9679 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7743 Epoch 52/100
Train Loss: 0.1354, Train Acc: 0.9663 Val Loss: 0.8326, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 53/100
Train Loss: 0.1341, Train Acc: 0.9710 Val Loss: 0.8324, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 54/100
Train Loss: 0.1340, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8326, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 55/100
Train Loss: 0.1375, Train Acc: 0.9689 Val Loss: 0.8325, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 56/100
Train Loss: 0.1366, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 57/100
Train Loss: 0.1337, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8326, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 58/100
Train Loss: 0.1331, Train Acc: 0.9699 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 59/100
Train Loss: 0.1384, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8326, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 60/100
Train Loss: 0.1349, Train Acc: 0.9725 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 61/100
Train Loss: 0.1367, Train Acc: 0.9684 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 62/100
Train Loss: 0.1389, Train Acc: 0.9668 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 63/100
Train Loss: 0.1397, Train Acc: 0.9653 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 64/100
Train Loss: 0.1345, Train Acc: 0.9731 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 65/100
Train Loss: 0.1379, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 66/100
Train Loss: 0.1336, Train Acc: 0.9674 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 67/100
Train Loss: 0.1367, Train Acc: 0.9699 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 68/100
Train Loss: 0.1359, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8327, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 69/100
Train Loss: 0.1359, Train Acc: 0.9674 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 70/100
Train Loss: 0.1357, Train Acc: 0.9679 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 71/100
Train Loss: 0.1387, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 72/100
Train Loss: 0.1357, Train Acc: 0.9699 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 73/100
Train Loss: 0.1351, Train Acc: 0.9715 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 74/100
Train Loss: 0.1413, Train Acc: 0.9684 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 75/100
Train Loss: 0.1358, Train Acc: 0.9684 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 76/100
Train Loss: 0.1311, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 77/100
Train Loss: 0.1357, Train Acc: 0.9668 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 78/100
Train Loss: 0.1349, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 79/100
Train Loss: 0.1362, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 80/100
Train Loss: 0.1345, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 81/100
Train Loss: 0.1354, Train Acc: 0.9699 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 82/100
Train Loss: 0.1400, Train Acc: 0.9637 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 83/100
Train Loss: 0.1376, Train Acc: 0.9674 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 84/100
Train Loss: 0.1378, Train Acc: 0.9679 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 85/100
Train Loss: 0.1351, Train Acc: 0.9632 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 86/100
Train Loss: 0.1373, Train Acc: 0.9684 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 87/100
Train Loss: 0.1358, Train Acc: 0.9668 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 88/100
Train Loss: 0.1345, Train Acc: 0.9710 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 89/100
Train Loss: 0.1367, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 90/100
Train Loss: 0.1358, Train Acc: 0.9736 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 91/100
Train Loss: 0.1337, Train Acc: 0.9715 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 92/100
Train Loss: 0.1439, Train Acc: 0.9658 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 93/100
Train Loss: 0.1370, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 94/100
Train Loss: 0.1372, Train Acc: 0.9689 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 95/100
Train Loss: 0.1387, Train Acc: 0.9674 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 96/100
Train Loss: 0.1341, Train Acc: 0.9705 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 97/100
Train Loss: 0.1340, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 98/100
Train Loss: 0.1360, Train Acc: 0.9658 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 99/100
Train Loss: 0.1421, Train Acc: 0.9658 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 Epoch 100/100
Train Loss: 0.1351, Train Acc: 0.9674 Val Loss: 0.8328, Val Acc: 0.7718 === Training finished === Best val loss: 0.7352 Best model path: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mel_transformer/best_model.pth
(4) Training [MERT Pre-trained Model] + [1DCNN Classifier]
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./" # root dir
# (4) Pretrained model (MERT) + 1DCNN Classifier
mode = "mert"
model_type = "cnn"
model, history = train_gtsinger(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
data_root=data_root,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
n_mels=128,
batch_size=32,
epochs=50, # 50 epochs due to the fast convergence
lr=1e-3,
dropout=0.3,
seed=42,
results_dir=f"./train/GT_results",
)
=== Training GTsinger (mert, cnn) on cuda === Loading MERT model... Creating datasets... [Dataset] Split 'train': 1925 samples [Dataset] Split 'val': 405 samples Input feature dim (F): 1024 Num classes: 6 Initializing CNN model... Model parameters: 664,390 Start training for 50 epochs... Epoch 1/50
Train Loss: 1.4051, Train Acc: 0.4603 Val Loss: 1.1098, Val Acc: 0.5728 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.1098) Epoch 2/50
Train Loss: 1.0134, Train Acc: 0.6223 Val Loss: 0.8714, Val Acc: 0.6568 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8714) Epoch 3/50
Train Loss: 0.8289, Train Acc: 0.6784 Val Loss: 0.8233, Val Acc: 0.6840 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8233) Epoch 4/50
Train Loss: 0.7322, Train Acc: 0.7195 Val Loss: 0.6611, Val Acc: 0.7506 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6611) Epoch 5/50
Train Loss: 0.6623, Train Acc: 0.7481 Val Loss: 0.7376, Val Acc: 0.7333 Epoch 6/50
Train Loss: 0.6272, Train Acc: 0.7449 Val Loss: 0.6038, Val Acc: 0.7630 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6038) Epoch 7/50
Train Loss: 0.5775, Train Acc: 0.7782 Val Loss: 0.5754, Val Acc: 0.7901 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5754) Epoch 8/50
Train Loss: 0.4968, Train Acc: 0.8119 Val Loss: 0.5414, Val Acc: 0.7802 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5414) Epoch 9/50
Train Loss: 0.4963, Train Acc: 0.8078 Val Loss: 0.5403, Val Acc: 0.8000 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5403) Epoch 10/50
Train Loss: 0.4435, Train Acc: 0.8306 Val Loss: 0.5249, Val Acc: 0.8173 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5249) Epoch 11/50
Train Loss: 0.4371, Train Acc: 0.8405 Val Loss: 0.5245, Val Acc: 0.8321 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5245) Epoch 12/50
Train Loss: 0.4230, Train Acc: 0.8462 Val Loss: 0.5076, Val Acc: 0.7975 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5076) Epoch 13/50
Train Loss: 0.4444, Train Acc: 0.8374 Val Loss: 0.4827, Val Acc: 0.8247 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.4827) Epoch 14/50
Train Loss: 0.3899, Train Acc: 0.8608 Val Loss: 0.4878, Val Acc: 0.8198 Epoch 15/50
Train Loss: 0.3893, Train Acc: 0.8478 Val Loss: 0.4769, Val Acc: 0.8370 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.4769) Epoch 16/50
Train Loss: 0.3827, Train Acc: 0.8618 Val Loss: 0.4487, Val Acc: 0.8198 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.4487) Epoch 17/50
Train Loss: 0.3354, Train Acc: 0.8738 Val Loss: 0.3947, Val Acc: 0.8593 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.3947) Epoch 18/50
Train Loss: 0.3429, Train Acc: 0.8722 Val Loss: 0.5002, Val Acc: 0.8247 Epoch 19/50
Train Loss: 0.3243, Train Acc: 0.8784 Val Loss: 0.4430, Val Acc: 0.8420 Epoch 20/50
Train Loss: 0.3493, Train Acc: 0.8764 Val Loss: 0.4562, Val Acc: 0.8123 Epoch 21/50
Train Loss: 0.3050, Train Acc: 0.8894 Val Loss: 0.4322, Val Acc: 0.8370 Epoch 22/50
Train Loss: 0.2488, Train Acc: 0.9143 Val Loss: 0.4009, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 23/50
Train Loss: 0.2294, Train Acc: 0.9221 Val Loss: 0.4254, Val Acc: 0.8370 Epoch 24/50
Train Loss: 0.2280, Train Acc: 0.9325 Val Loss: 0.4170, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 25/50
Train Loss: 0.2270, Train Acc: 0.9179 Val Loss: 0.3915, Val Acc: 0.8494 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.3915) Epoch 26/50
Train Loss: 0.2223, Train Acc: 0.9283 Val Loss: 0.4268, Val Acc: 0.8321 Epoch 27/50
Train Loss: 0.2264, Train Acc: 0.9221 Val Loss: 0.3802, Val Acc: 0.8519 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.3802) Epoch 28/50
Train Loss: 0.1990, Train Acc: 0.9278 Val Loss: 0.3869, Val Acc: 0.8543 Epoch 29/50
Train Loss: 0.1732, Train Acc: 0.9449 Val Loss: 0.3902, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 30/50
Train Loss: 0.1952, Train Acc: 0.9403 Val Loss: 0.3926, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 31/50
Train Loss: 0.1931, Train Acc: 0.9319 Val Loss: 0.4058, Val Acc: 0.8593 Epoch 32/50
Train Loss: 0.1800, Train Acc: 0.9413 Val Loss: 0.3920, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 33/50
Train Loss: 0.1576, Train Acc: 0.9491 Val Loss: 0.3879, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 34/50
Train Loss: 0.1358, Train Acc: 0.9590 Val Loss: 0.4107, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 35/50
Train Loss: 0.1307, Train Acc: 0.9631 Val Loss: 0.4068, Val Acc: 0.8617 Epoch 36/50
Train Loss: 0.1440, Train Acc: 0.9522 Val Loss: 0.3857, Val Acc: 0.8444 Epoch 37/50
Train Loss: 0.1375, Train Acc: 0.9548 Val Loss: 0.3890, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 38/50
Train Loss: 0.1533, Train Acc: 0.9553 Val Loss: 0.3937, Val Acc: 0.8444 Epoch 39/50
Train Loss: 0.1229, Train Acc: 0.9631 Val Loss: 0.4139, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 40/50
Train Loss: 0.1427, Train Acc: 0.9584 Val Loss: 0.3918, Val Acc: 0.8444 Epoch 41/50
Train Loss: 0.1256, Train Acc: 0.9579 Val Loss: 0.3889, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 42/50
Train Loss: 0.1176, Train Acc: 0.9652 Val Loss: 0.3804, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 43/50
Train Loss: 0.1320, Train Acc: 0.9517 Val Loss: 0.3855, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 44/50
Train Loss: 0.1175, Train Acc: 0.9642 Val Loss: 0.3854, Val Acc: 0.8543 Epoch 45/50
Train Loss: 0.1477, Train Acc: 0.9590 Val Loss: 0.3881, Val Acc: 0.8543 Epoch 46/50
Train Loss: 0.1131, Train Acc: 0.9688 Val Loss: 0.3967, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 47/50
Train Loss: 0.1107, Train Acc: 0.9673 Val Loss: 0.3823, Val Acc: 0.8593 Epoch 48/50
Train Loss: 0.1303, Train Acc: 0.9553 Val Loss: 0.3801, Val Acc: 0.8444 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.3801) Epoch 49/50
Train Loss: 0.1130, Train Acc: 0.9657 Val Loss: 0.3843, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 50/50
Train Loss: 0.1121, Train Acc: 0.9662 Val Loss: 0.3964, Val Acc: 0.8519 === Training finished === Best val loss: 0.3801 Best model path: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mert_cnn/best_model.pth
(5) Training [MERT Pre-trained Model] + [CRNN Classifier]
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./" # root dir
# (5) Pretrained model (MERT) + CRNN Classifier
mode = "mert"
model_type = "crnn"
model, history = train_gtsinger(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
data_root=data_root,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
n_mels=128,
batch_size=32,
epochs=50, # 50 epochs due to the fast convergence
lr=1e-3,
dropout=0.3,
seed=42,
results_dir=f"./train/GT_results",
)
=== Training GTsinger (mert, crnn) on cuda === Loading MERT model... Creating datasets... [Dataset] Split 'train': 1925 samples [Dataset] Split 'val': 405 samples Input feature dim (F): 1024 Num classes: 6 Initializing CRNN model... Model parameters: 1,316,742 Start training for 50 epochs... Epoch 1/50
Train Loss: 1.2794, Train Acc: 0.4930 Val Loss: 1.0148, Val Acc: 0.5926 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.0148) Epoch 2/50
Train Loss: 0.9073, Train Acc: 0.6499 Val Loss: 0.8656, Val Acc: 0.6593 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8656) Epoch 3/50
Train Loss: 0.7245, Train Acc: 0.7158 Val Loss: 0.7562, Val Acc: 0.6988 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7562) Epoch 4/50
Train Loss: 0.6884, Train Acc: 0.7356 Val Loss: 0.6256, Val Acc: 0.7654 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6256) Epoch 5/50
Train Loss: 0.5626, Train Acc: 0.7777 Val Loss: 0.6234, Val Acc: 0.7679 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6234) Epoch 6/50
Train Loss: 0.4641, Train Acc: 0.8301 Val Loss: 0.6192, Val Acc: 0.7556 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6192) Epoch 7/50
Train Loss: 0.4861, Train Acc: 0.8094 Val Loss: 0.5918, Val Acc: 0.7877 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5918) Epoch 8/50
Train Loss: 0.3510, Train Acc: 0.8748 Val Loss: 0.5614, Val Acc: 0.7951 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5614) Epoch 9/50
Train Loss: 0.3674, Train Acc: 0.8618 Val Loss: 0.5924, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 10/50
Train Loss: 0.2951, Train Acc: 0.8925 Val Loss: 0.5215, Val Acc: 0.8123 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.5215) Epoch 11/50
Train Loss: 0.2423, Train Acc: 0.9127 Val Loss: 0.4916, Val Acc: 0.8272 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.4916) Epoch 12/50
Train Loss: 0.2698, Train Acc: 0.9013 Val Loss: 0.4692, Val Acc: 0.8469 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.4692) Epoch 13/50
Train Loss: 0.2347, Train Acc: 0.9148 Val Loss: 0.5337, Val Acc: 0.8148 Epoch 14/50
Train Loss: 0.1703, Train Acc: 0.9392 Val Loss: 0.5804, Val Acc: 0.8099 Epoch 15/50
Train Loss: 0.1590, Train Acc: 0.9455 Val Loss: 0.6239, Val Acc: 0.7827 Epoch 16/50
Train Loss: 0.2125, Train Acc: 0.9184 Val Loss: 0.5645, Val Acc: 0.8247 Epoch 17/50
Train Loss: 0.0929, Train Acc: 0.9704 Val Loss: 0.4885, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 18/50
Train Loss: 0.0650, Train Acc: 0.9808 Val Loss: 0.4635, Val Acc: 0.8494 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.4635) Epoch 19/50
Train Loss: 0.0544, Train Acc: 0.9849 Val Loss: 0.5254, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 20/50
Train Loss: 0.0815, Train Acc: 0.9756 Val Loss: 0.8308, Val Acc: 0.8321 Epoch 21/50
Train Loss: 0.1269, Train Acc: 0.9600 Val Loss: 0.5366, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 22/50
Train Loss: 0.0583, Train Acc: 0.9839 Val Loss: 0.4876, Val Acc: 0.8321 Epoch 23/50
Train Loss: 0.0327, Train Acc: 0.9943 Val Loss: 0.4833, Val Acc: 0.8568 Epoch 24/50
Train Loss: 0.0274, Train Acc: 0.9958 Val Loss: 0.4926, Val Acc: 0.8667 Epoch 25/50
Train Loss: 0.0315, Train Acc: 0.9912 Val Loss: 0.8039, Val Acc: 0.8099 Epoch 26/50
Train Loss: 0.0645, Train Acc: 0.9881 Val Loss: 0.5879, Val Acc: 0.8346 Epoch 27/50
Train Loss: 0.0316, Train Acc: 0.9943 Val Loss: 0.5532, Val Acc: 0.8543 Epoch 28/50
Train Loss: 0.0179, Train Acc: 0.9964 Val Loss: 0.5509, Val Acc: 0.8543 Epoch 29/50
Train Loss: 0.0109, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5541, Val Acc: 0.8593 Epoch 30/50
Train Loss: 0.0180, Train Acc: 0.9979 Val Loss: 0.5774, Val Acc: 0.8568 Epoch 31/50
Train Loss: 0.0142, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.5615, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 32/50
Train Loss: 0.0158, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5672, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 33/50
Train Loss: 0.0170, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.5955, Val Acc: 0.8568 Epoch 34/50
Train Loss: 0.0115, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.5964, Val Acc: 0.8444 Epoch 35/50
Train Loss: 0.0103, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.6069, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 36/50
Train Loss: 0.0154, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.6055, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 37/50
Train Loss: 0.0119, Train Acc: 0.9974 Val Loss: 0.6170, Val Acc: 0.8642 Epoch 38/50
Train Loss: 0.0094, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.5757, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 39/50
Train Loss: 0.0086, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5808, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 40/50
Train Loss: 0.0090, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5825, Val Acc: 0.8370 Epoch 41/50
Train Loss: 0.0101, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.5822, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 42/50
Train Loss: 0.0083, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 0.5754, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 43/50
Train Loss: 0.0118, Train Acc: 0.9979 Val Loss: 0.6076, Val Acc: 0.8568 Epoch 44/50
Train Loss: 0.0092, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5944, Val Acc: 0.8494 Epoch 45/50
Train Loss: 0.0173, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5940, Val Acc: 0.8593 Epoch 46/50
Train Loss: 0.0075, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5893, Val Acc: 0.8593 Epoch 47/50
Train Loss: 0.0068, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.5823, Val Acc: 0.8593 Epoch 48/50
Train Loss: 0.0103, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5745, Val Acc: 0.8469 Epoch 49/50
Train Loss: 0.0085, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.5790, Val Acc: 0.8519 Epoch 50/50
Train Loss: 0.0073, Train Acc: 0.9990 Val Loss: 0.5703, Val Acc: 0.8444 === Training finished === Best val loss: 0.4635 Best model path: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mert_crnn/best_model.pth
(6) Training [MERT Pre-trained Model] + [Transformer Classifier]
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./" # root dir
# (6) Pretrained model (MERT) + Transformer Classifier
mode = "mert"
model_type = "transformer"
model, history = train_gtsinger(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
data_root=data_root,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
n_mels=128,
batch_size=32,
epochs=50, # 50 epochs due to the fast convergence
lr=1e-3,
dropout=0.3,
seed=42,
results_dir=f"./train/GT_results",
)
=== Training GTsinger (mert, transformer) on cuda === Loading MERT model... Creating datasets... [Dataset] Split 'train': 1925 samples [Dataset] Split 'val': 405 samples Input feature dim (F): 1024 Num classes: 6 Initializing TRANSFORMER model... Model parameters: 264,454 Start training for 50 epochs... Epoch 1/50
Train Loss: 1.4753, Train Acc: 0.4229 Val Loss: 1.1259, Val Acc: 0.5259 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=1.1259) Epoch 2/50
Train Loss: 1.0293, Train Acc: 0.6078 Val Loss: 1.1282, Val Acc: 0.5333 Epoch 3/50
Train Loss: 0.8779, Train Acc: 0.6613 Val Loss: 0.8004, Val Acc: 0.6815 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.8004) Epoch 4/50
Train Loss: 0.7605, Train Acc: 0.6764 Val Loss: 0.7859, Val Acc: 0.7012 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7859) Epoch 5/50
Train Loss: 0.6611, Train Acc: 0.7382 Val Loss: 0.7117, Val Acc: 0.7481 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.7117) Epoch 6/50
Train Loss: 0.5691, Train Acc: 0.7771 Val Loss: 0.6141, Val Acc: 0.7481 ✓ New best model saved (val_loss=0.6141) Epoch 7/50
Train Loss: 0.4676, Train Acc: 0.8135 Val Loss: 0.7089, Val Acc: 0.7383 Epoch 8/50
Train Loss: 0.4653, Train Acc: 0.8140 Val Loss: 0.7161, Val Acc: 0.7333 Epoch 9/50
Train Loss: 0.4242, Train Acc: 0.8296 Val Loss: 0.6185, Val Acc: 0.7556 Epoch 10/50
Train Loss: 0.3458, Train Acc: 0.8670 Val Loss: 0.8197, Val Acc: 0.7358 Epoch 11/50
Train Loss: 0.2384, Train Acc: 0.9138 Val Loss: 0.6210, Val Acc: 0.7852 Epoch 12/50
Train Loss: 0.1850, Train Acc: 0.9429 Val Loss: 0.6983, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 13/50
Train Loss: 0.1653, Train Acc: 0.9429 Val Loss: 0.6789, Val Acc: 0.7802 Epoch 14/50
Train Loss: 0.1201, Train Acc: 0.9558 Val Loss: 0.7838, Val Acc: 0.7778 Epoch 15/50
Train Loss: 0.0939, Train Acc: 0.9694 Val Loss: 0.7501, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 16/50
Train Loss: 0.0579, Train Acc: 0.9896 Val Loss: 0.7621, Val Acc: 0.7704 Epoch 17/50
Train Loss: 0.0570, Train Acc: 0.9906 Val Loss: 0.8152, Val Acc: 0.7679 Epoch 18/50
Train Loss: 0.0597, Train Acc: 0.9844 Val Loss: 0.9059, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 19/50
Train Loss: 0.0380, Train Acc: 0.9948 Val Loss: 0.9008, Val Acc: 0.7457 Epoch 20/50
Train Loss: 0.0268, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.9264, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 21/50
Train Loss: 0.0242, Train Acc: 0.9984 Val Loss: 0.9519, Val Acc: 0.7432 Epoch 22/50
Train Loss: 0.0201, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.9531, Val Acc: 0.7556 Epoch 23/50
Train Loss: 0.0184, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 0.9613, Val Acc: 0.7556 Epoch 24/50
Train Loss: 0.0175, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.9767, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 25/50
Train Loss: 0.0158, Train Acc: 0.9995 Val Loss: 0.9933, Val Acc: 0.7481 Epoch 26/50
Train Loss: 0.0151, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0061, Val Acc: 0.7506 Epoch 27/50
Train Loss: 0.0143, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 0.9997, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 28/50
Train Loss: 0.0137, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0069, Val Acc: 0.7481 Epoch 29/50
Train Loss: 0.0131, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0183, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 30/50
Train Loss: 0.0133, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0171, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 31/50
Train Loss: 0.0135, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0197, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 32/50
Train Loss: 0.0125, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0200, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 33/50
Train Loss: 0.0123, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0254, Val Acc: 0.7531 Epoch 34/50
Train Loss: 0.0125, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0234, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 35/50
Train Loss: 0.0119, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0255, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 36/50
Train Loss: 0.0121, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0287, Val Acc: 0.7580 Epoch 37/50
Train Loss: 0.0114, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0304, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 38/50
Train Loss: 0.0121, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0307, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 39/50
Train Loss: 0.0115, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0312, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 40/50
Train Loss: 0.0116, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0326, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 41/50
Train Loss: 0.0113, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0313, Val Acc: 0.7654 Epoch 42/50
Train Loss: 0.0116, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0331, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 43/50
Train Loss: 0.0119, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0345, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 44/50
Train Loss: 0.0116, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0348, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 45/50
Train Loss: 0.0110, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0356, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 46/50
Train Loss: 0.0114, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0362, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 47/50
Train Loss: 0.0116, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0366, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 48/50
Train Loss: 0.0111, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0370, Val Acc: 0.7605 Epoch 49/50
Train Loss: 0.0116, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0371, Val Acc: 0.7630 Epoch 50/50
Train Loss: 0.0111, Train Acc: 1.0000 Val Loss: 1.0375, Val Acc: 0.7630 === Training finished === Best val loss: 0.6141 Best model path: /home/steve/final_report/train/GT_results/mert_transformer/best_model.pth
3-9 Training Results¶
Overall, using the pre-trained MERT model for transfer learning improved validation accuracy across all claissifers. However, more complex classifiers shows larger gaps between training and validation accuracy, indicating there is overfitting and showing lower validation accuracy when using the pre-trained model MERT.
Training Curve Comparison
Figure 3. Training Curve Comparison
Thus, we selected the [MERT] + [1D-CNN] pipeline as our final model, since it offered the highest validation accuracy with the best generalization performance”
4. Implementation on New Data¶
This section demonstrates how to use the trained model to make predictions on new, unseen audio files. The process involves loading a trained model checkpoint, preprocessing the new audio file using the same pipeline as training, and generating predictions.
4-1. Loading a Trained Model¶
First, we load the trained model from a saved checkpoint. The model architecture must match the one used during training.
def load_trained_model(model_path: str, mode: str = "mert", model_type: str = "cnn", device: str = "cuda"):
"""
Load a trained model from a checkpoint.
Args:
model_path: Path to the saved model checkpoint (.pth file)
mode: Feature extraction mode ("mert" or "mel")
model_type: Classifier type ("cnn", "crnn", or "transformer")
device: Device to load the model on
Returns:
Loaded model ready for inference
"""
# Load label mapping
results_dir = Path(model_path).parent
with open(results_dir / "label_mapping.json", "r") as f:
label_mapping = json.load(f)
id_to_label = {int(k): v for k, v in label_mapping.items()}
# Initialize model based on mode
if mode == "mert":
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModel
model_name = "m-a-p/MERT-v1-330M"
mert_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
mert_model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True).to(device)
mert_model.eval()
feature_dim = 1024
else:
mert_processor = None
mert_model = None
feature_dim = 128 # For mel spectrogram
# Initialize classifier
if model_type == "cnn":
classifier = CNN1D_Classifier(in_channels=feature_dim, n_classes=6, dropout=0.3)
elif model_type == "crnn":
classifier = CRNN_Classifier(in_channels=feature_dim, n_classes=6, dropout=0.3)
elif model_type == "transformer":
classifier = Transformer_Classifier(in_channels=feature_dim, n_classes=6, dropout=0.3)
else:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown model_type: {model_type}")
# Load trained weights
classifier.load_state_dict(torch.load(model_path, map_location=device))
classifier = classifier.to(device)
classifier.eval()
return classifier, mert_model, mert_processor, id_to_label
4-2. Model Test Function¶
We create a function for testing the trained models with the test dataset.
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix, precision_recall_fscore_support
def model_test(classifier, test_loader, device, id_to_label=None, results_dir: str | Path = "./results_test"):
"""
Evaluate model on test_loader:
- Compute accuracy
- Compute normalized confusion matrix (per-class)
- Save confusion matrix as PNG and also display it
- Compute per-class Precision / Recall / F1 and print as a table
"""
classifier.eval()
total, correct = 0, 0
all_preds, all_labels = [], []
with torch.no_grad():
for batch in tqdm(test_loader, desc="Testing"):
features = batch["features"].to(device) # [B, T, F]
labels = batch["label"].to(device)
logits = classifier(features) # [B, n_classes]
preds = logits.argmax(dim=1)
correct += (preds == labels).sum().item()
total += labels.size(0)
all_preds.extend(preds.cpu().tolist())
all_labels.extend(labels.cpu().tolist())
acc = correct / total
print(f"\nTest accuracy: {acc:.4f}")
# ----- Confusion Matrix -----
results_dir = Path(results_dir)
results_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
# decide class ids & names
if id_to_label is not None:
class_ids = sorted(id_to_label.keys())
class_names = [id_to_label[i] for i in class_ids]
else:
class_ids = sorted(set(all_labels) | set(all_preds))
class_names = [str(i) for i in class_ids]
# confusion_matrix per true class
cm = confusion_matrix(
all_labels,
all_preds,
labels=class_ids,
normalize="true",
)
# Plot confusion matrix
plt.figure(figsize=(6, 5))
im = plt.imshow(cm, interpolation="nearest", cmap="Blues")
plt.title("Normalized Confusion Matrix")
plt.colorbar(im, fraction=0.046, pad=0.04)
tick_marks = np.arange(len(class_names))
plt.xticks(tick_marks, class_names, rotation=45, ha="right")
plt.yticks(tick_marks, class_names)
plt.ylabel("True Label")
plt.xlabel("Predicted Label")
# annotate each cell
for i in range(cm.shape[0]):
for j in range(cm.shape[1]):
value = cm[i, j]
plt.text(
j, i,
f"{value:.2f}",
ha="center",
va="center",
color="white" if value > 0.5 else "black",
fontsize=8,
)
plt.tight_layout()
cm_path = results_dir / "confusion_matrix_normalized.png"
plt.savefig(cm_path, dpi=150)
plt.show()
print(f"Saved normalized confusion matrix to: {cm_path}")
# ----- Precision / Recall / F1 per class -----
precision, recall, f1, support = precision_recall_fscore_support(
all_labels,
all_preds,
labels=class_ids,
zero_division=0,
)
# ===== Per-class Accuracy =====
class_accuracy = []
for cid in class_ids:
cls_mask = np.array(all_labels) == cid
cls_correct = (np.array(all_preds)[cls_mask] == cid).sum()
cls_total = cls_mask.sum()
acc = cls_correct / max(1, cls_total)
class_accuracy.append(acc)
# ===== Print Full Metrics Table =====
print("\n Per-class Evaluation Metrics:")
header = f"{'Class':<15} {'Support':>7} {'Accuracy':>10} {'Precision':>10} {'Recall':>10} {'F1-score':>10}"
print(header)
print("-" * len(header))
for cid, p, r, f, s, a in zip(class_ids, precision, recall, f1, support, class_accuracy):
name = id_to_label[cid] if id_to_label else str(cid)
print(f"{name:<15} {s:7d} {a:10.3f} {p:10.3f} {r:10.3f} {f:10.3f}")
# macro-average
macro_p = precision.mean()
macro_r = recall.mean()
macro_f = f1.mean()
print("-" * len(header))
print(f"{'Macro-avg':<15} {sum(support):7d} {macro_p:10.3f} {macro_r:10.3f} {macro_f:10.3f}")
return acc, all_preds, all_labels
4-3. Test The Loaded Model with Test Dataset¶
Load the test dataset using the data loading class as same as in train and vaild dataset. The test dataset is preprocessed in the same way.
metadata_file = "./data/GTsinger/English/metadata.json"
data_root = "./"
device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
mode = "mert"
model_type = "cnn" # "cnn" / "crnn" / "transformer"
model_path = f"./train/GT_results/{mode}_{model_type}/best_model.pth"
print("\nLoading MERT model...")
model_name = "m-a-p/MERT-v1-330M"
mert_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
mert_model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
mert_model.to(device)
mert_model.eval()
test_dataset = GTsingerAudioDataset(
metadata_file=metadata_file,
split="test",
mode=mode,
mert_processor=mert_processor,
mert_model=mert_model,
n_mels=128,
max_length_sec=10.0,
target_sr=24000,
data_root=data_root,
)
test_loader = DataLoader(
test_dataset,
batch_size=32,
shuffle=False,
)
# Load the trained model
classifier, mert_model, mert_processor, id_to_label = load_trained_model(
model_path=model_path,
mode=mode,
model_type=model_type,
device=device,
)
# Test the model
test_acc, test_preds, test_labels = model_test(
classifier,
test_loader,
device,
id_to_label=id_to_label,
results_dir=f"./test/{mode}_{model_type}_test_results",
)
Loading MERT model... [Dataset] Split 'test': 432 samples
Testing: 100%|██████████| 14/14 [00:08<00:00, 1.60it/s]
Test accuracy: 0.8843
Saved normalized confusion matrix to: test/mert_cnn_test_results/confusion_matrix_normalized.png Per-class Evaluation Metrics: Class Support Accuracy Precision Recall F1-score ------------------------------------------------------------------- Breathy 56 0.839 0.839 0.839 0.839 Falsetto 108 0.889 0.950 0.889 0.919 Glissando 56 0.804 0.776 0.804 0.789 Mixed_Voice 109 0.908 0.868 0.908 0.888 Pharyngeal 55 0.909 0.909 0.909 0.909 Vibrato 48 0.938 0.938 0.938 0.938 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Macro-avg 432 0.880 0.881 0.880
4-4. Test Results on The Test Dataset¶
The model's performance shows that it achieves 88.43% accuracy across all classes in the test dataset.
The confusion matrix highlights where the model mixes up certain labels. While it has the most difficulty with Glissando, the overall classification performance remains strong and accurate.
The evaluation metrics table (Precision, Recall and F1-score) shows that the model performs best on Vibrato, scoring above 0.9 on every evaluation metric.
4-5. Example: Predicting on New Demo Audio Files¶
Here's a complete example of using the trained model to predict vocal techniques on new demo audio files that one of our team members recorded using two types of microphones. Due to the limited singing skills we could implement when singing, there are only two classes of the vocal. Please find the demo_data in the data folder to see the saved wav files.
The four wav files are loaded and can be played through the audio player.
from IPython.display import Audio, display
demo_root = Path("./data/demo_data")
# All wav files in demo_root
wav_files = sorted(demo_root.rglob("*.wav"))
print(f"Found {len(wav_files)} demo wav files:\n")
for wav_path in wav_files:
label = wav_path.parent.name
print(f"▶ {label}: {wav_path.name}")
display(Audio(filename=str(wav_path), autoplay=False))
Found 4 demo wav files: ▶ Breathy: breathy_1.wav
▶ Breathy: breathy_2.wav
▶ Vibrato: vibrato_1.wav
▶ Vibrato: vibrato_2.wav
# ======= Demo data loader with the same preprocessing =======
class DemoDataset(Dataset):
def __init__(self, demo_root: str, mert_processor, mert_model, id_to_label,
max_length_sec: float = 10.0, target_sr: int = 24000):
self.demo_root = Path(demo_root)
self.mert_processor = mert_processor
self.mert_model = mert_model
self.max_length_sec = max_length_sec
self.target_sr = target_sr
self.label_to_id = {v: int(k) for k, v in id_to_label.items()}
self.samples = []
for label_name in sorted(os.listdir(self.demo_root)):
class_dir = self.demo_root / label_name
if not class_dir.is_dir():
continue
for wav in class_dir.glob("*.wav"):
self.samples.append({
"filepath": wav,
"label_name": label_name,
})
print(f"Demo File Loaded {len(self.samples)} demo samples")
def __len__(self):
return len(self.samples)
def _load_and_fix_length(self, audio_path: Path):
audio, sr = librosa.load(str(audio_path), sr=self.target_sr, mono=True)
if audio.max() > 0:
audio = audio / np.abs(audio).max()
target_len = int(self.max_length_sec * self.target_sr)
if audio.shape[0] > target_len:
audio = audio[:target_len]
elif audio.shape[0] < target_len:
audio = np.pad(audio, (0, target_len - audio.shape[0]), mode="constant")
return audio.astype(np.float32)
def __getitem__(self, idx):
meta = self.samples[idx]
audio = self._load_and_fix_length(meta["filepath"])
label_name = meta["label_name"]
label_id = self.label_to_id[label_name]
with torch.no_grad():
inputs = self.mert_processor(
audio,
sampling_rate=self.target_sr,
return_tensors="pt",
)
inputs = {k: v.to(self.mert_model.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
hidden_states = self.mert_model(**inputs).last_hidden_state # [1, T, 1024]
features = hidden_states.squeeze(0) # [T, 1024]
return {
"features": features,
"label": torch.tensor(label_id, dtype=torch.long),
"filepath": str(meta["filepath"]),
"label_name": label_name,
}
def model_demo_test(classifier, test_loader, device, id_to_label):
classifier.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
for batch in test_loader:
features = batch["features"].to(device)
labels = batch["label"].to(device)
logits = classifier(features)
preds = logits.argmax(dim=1)
for p, gt in zip(preds.cpu(), labels.cpu()):
print(
f"GT: {id_to_label[gt.item()]} | "
f"Pred: {id_to_label[p.item()]}"
)
# Loading the demo data
demo_root = "./data/demo_data"
demo_dataset = DemoDataset(
demo_root=demo_root,
mert_processor=mert_processor,
mert_model=mert_model,
id_to_label=id_to_label,
)
demo_loader = DataLoader(demo_dataset, batch_size=1, shuffle=False)
# Test the model on demo data
model_demo_test(classifier, demo_loader, device, id_to_label=id_to_label)
Demo File Loaded 4 demo samples GT: Breathy | Pred: Breathy GT: Breathy | Pred: Breathy GT: Vibrato | Pred: Vibrato GT: Vibrato | Pred: Vibrato
5. Summary of related work with citations/references¶
5-1 Pre-trained Audio Representation Models¶
MERT (Music Audio Representation Transformer): Li et al., 2024 - A pre-trained transformer model for music understanding that we use as a frozen feature extractor. MERT-v1-330M provides 1024-dimensional frame-level embeddings that encode pitch, timbre, and temporal context.
Wav2Vec2: Baevski et al., 2020 - An alternative self-supervised pre-trained model for speech/audio that was considered for comparison with MERT in our future work.
Audio-MAE: Huang et al., 2022 - A masked autoencoder approach for self-supervised audio representation learning, demonstrating the effectiveness of reconstruction-based pre-training for audio tasks.
5-2 Vocal Technique and Singing Voice Datasets¶
VocalSet: Wilkins et al., 2018 - A dataset of vocal recordings with technique annotations that we used in our progress report (VocalSet11 subset with 3,460 samples and 15 vocal techniques).
GTSinger: Zhang et al., 2024 - A large-scale singing dataset with phoneme-level technique annotations that we use in our final implementation.
SVQTD: Xu et al., 2022 - A dataset containing Register labels (Head/Chest/Mixed) that was explored for future Register classification work.
M4Singer: Zhang et al., 2022 - A large-scale unlabeled singing dataset (~20,000 clips) that was proposed for self-supervised pretraining in the original project proposal.
5-3 Transfer Learning for Audio Classification¶
Transfer learning with frozen pre-trained encoders has shown success in audio classification tasks Gong et al., 2021; Hershey et al., 2017. Our approach leverages this by using MERT as a frozen feature extractor, allowing us to benefit from representations learned on large-scale music datasets while training only a lightweight classification head.
5-4 Transformer Architectures for Audio¶
Transformer architectures have been successfully applied to audio classification tasks Gong et al., 2021; Vaswani et al., 2017. We evaluated a Transformer-based classifier as one of our explorative approaches. However, our final model uses a lightweight 1D-CNN classifier to process temporal sequences of MERT embeddings, which achieved the best performance for our vocal technique recognition task. This finding aligns with research showing that simpler architectures can be effective when working with high-quality pre-trained features He et al., 2016.
5-5 Vocal Technique Recognition and Audio Classification¶
Previous work on vocal technique recognition has primarily focused on traditional feature engineering approaches or smaller datasets. Wilkins et al., 2018 introduced VocalSet, one of the first datasets for vocal technique classification, using handcrafted features and classical machine learning methods. More recent work has explored deep learning approaches, but often with limited datasets or end-to-end training from scratch. Our work demonstrates that transfer learning with pre-trained audio models can achieve strong performance on vocal technique recognition with relatively modest computational requirements. Below is the evaluation metrics of the classification model ROSVOT on the GTsinger dataset Zhang et al., 2024.
Figure 4. Evaluation metrics of ROSVOT on GTsinger dataset
As shown in this table, both models struggle with classifying the Vibrato and Glissando classes. However, our model achieves higher evaluation metrics on these two labels compared to ROSVOT. It is worth noting that our model was trained only on the English subset of the dataset, which may partially explain its stronger per-class performance.
5-6 Self-Supervised Learning for Audio¶
Self-supervised learning approaches have been effective for learning audio representations from unlabeled data Baevski et al., 2020; Hsu et al., 2021. While not implemented in our final work, our original proposal included self-supervised pretraining on M4Singer as a potential enhancement. The success of MERT, which was pre-trained using self-supervised learning on large music datasets, demonstrates the value of this approach for audio representation learning.
6. Discussion¶
Overall Performance Assessment¶
Our final model, which combines a frozen MERT feature extractor with a 1D-CNN classifier, achieved strong performance on the vocal technique recognition task. Based on the training results, the model reached approximately 86% validation accuracy on the GTSinger dataset, which represents a significant improvement over baseline approaches and demonstrates the effectiveness of transfer learning for this challenging audio classification problem.
Is the model performing well? Yes, we believe the model is performing well for several reasons:
Transfer Learning Success: The use of pre-trained MERT embeddings enabled us to achieve competitive performance with minimal training data and computational resources. By leveraging representations learned from large-scale music datasets, we bypassed the need for extensive end-to-end training.
Efficiency: The lightweight 1D-CNN classifier (selected over more complex Transformer and CRNN architectures) demonstrates that simpler models can be highly effective when working with high-quality pre-trained features. This finding is both practically valuable (faster inference, lower memory requirements) and theoretically interesting.
Generalization: The model shows consistent performance across the validation set, suggesting good generalization rather than overfitting to the training data.
However, there is room for improvement. An accuracy of 86% means that approximately 1 in 4 predictions is incorrect, which may not be sufficient for production applications requiring high precision. The performance could potentially be improved through:
- Fine-tuning the MERT backbone (currently frozen)
- Data augmentation techniques
- Ensemble methods combining multiple classifiers
- More sophisticated post-processing
Interesting and Surprising Findings¶
Several findings from this project were particularly interesting:
1D-CNN Outperformed More Complex Architectures: Perhaps the most surprising result was that the simple 1D-CNN classifier achieved better performance than both the CRNN (with LSTM layers) and Transformer-based classifiers. This suggests that:
- The temporal patterns in MERT embeddings are relatively local and don't require long-range dependencies
- The frame-level features from MERT already encode sufficient temporal context
- Simpler models can generalize better when working with high-quality pre-trained features
Effectiveness of Frozen Feature Extraction: The fact that freezing MERT (rather than fine-tuning) worked well demonstrates the transferability of music audio representations to vocal technique recognition. This suggests that the acoustic patterns learned by MERT are general enough to capture technique-specific characteristics.
Class Imbalance Challenges: While not explicitly addressed in this work, preliminary analysis suggests that some vocal techniques (e.g., Vibrato, Falsetto) may be easier to classify than others (e.g., Pharyngeal, Mixed Voice). This could be due to:
- More distinct acoustic signatures for certain techniques
- Imbalanced representation in the training data
- Overlapping characteristics between similar techniques
As a result, the model is performing remarkably well. After comparing six different model pipelines, we selected the MERT + 1D-CNN architecture as our final model. On the test dataset, this pipeline achieved an accuracy of approximately 86% across all six vocal technique classes. This represents a significant success for transfer learning in this challenging audio classification domain.
Key Insights and Lessons Learned¶
Through this project, we gained several important insights:
Transfer Learning is Powerful for Audio Tasks: Pre-trained audio representation models like MERT provide rich, generalizable features that can be effectively adapted to specific tasks with minimal additional training. This approach significantly reduces the data and computational requirements compared to training from scratch.
Simplicity Can Win: The success of the 1D-CNN over more complex architectures reinforces the principle that the right model complexity depends on the task and data characteristics. More parameters don't always mean better performance, especially when working with high-quality pre-trained features.
The Importance of Proper Evaluation: Comparing multiple architectures (1D-CNN, CRNN, Transformer) was crucial for identifying the best approach. This systematic evaluation process prevented us from assuming that more complex models would necessarily perform better.
Data Quality Matters: The GTSinger dataset's high-quality annotations and controlled recording conditions were essential for training a reliable model. The phoneme-level annotations and controlled comparison groups (natural vs. technique singing) provided a solid foundation for learning technique-specific patterns.
Practical Considerations: The choice of 1D-CNN not only improved accuracy but also made the model more practical for deployment due to faster inference times and lower memory requirements.
The most surprising and interesting finding of this project was that a simpler model architecture (1D-CNN) consistently outperformed more "advanced" and complex architectures like CRNNs and Transformers.
Conventionally, one might assume that adding LSTM layers (CRNN) or Self-Attention mechanisms (Transformer) would better capture the temporal dynamics of singing. However, our results showed that these complex classifiers suffered from larger gaps between training and validation accuracy - a classic sign of overfitting.
Limitations and Future Work¶
Several limitations should be acknowledged:
Dataset Scope: The model was trained on a specific dataset (GTSinger) with particular recording conditions and languages. Performance may degrade on audio from different sources, recording environments, or languages not well-represented in the training data.
Fixed-Length Input: The model processes fixed-length audio clips (~3 seconds), which may not capture longer-term patterns or techniques that manifest over extended durations.
Binary Classification Assumption: The model assumes each audio clip contains a single vocal technique, but in practice, singers may combine multiple techniques or transition between them.
Limited Technique Coverage: Only six vocal techniques are covered. Many other techniques exist (e.g., growl, yodel, belting) that could be incorporated in future work.
Future Directions:
Fine-tuning MERT: Experimenting with fine-tuning the MERT backbone (rather than freezing it) could potentially improve performance, though at the cost of increased training time and computational requirements.
Multi-label Classification: Extending the model to handle multiple simultaneous techniques would make it more applicable to real-world scenarios.
Temporal Segmentation: Developing methods to identify technique boundaries within longer audio clips would enable analysis of full songs rather than fixed-length segments.
Data Augmentation: Implementing audio augmentation techniques (pitch shifting, time stretching, noise injection) could improve robustness and generalization.
Cross-Dataset Evaluation: Testing the model on other vocal technique datasets (e.g., VocalSet) would provide insights into generalization across different data sources.
Explainability: Developing methods to visualize which parts of the audio signal contribute most to each technique classification would enhance interpretability and trust in the model.
Conclusion¶
This project successfully demonstrates that transfer learning with pre-trained audio models can achieve strong performance on vocal technique recognition with relatively modest resources. The finding that a simple 1D-CNN outperforms more complex architectures when working with high-quality pre-trained features is both practically valuable and theoretically interesting. While there is room for improvement, the model provides a solid foundation for automated vocal technique analysis and could be valuable for applications in music education, vocal training, and audio analysis.
The project highlights the importance of systematic evaluation, the power of transfer learning in audio tasks, and the value of choosing the right model complexity for the task at hand. These insights extend beyond vocal technique recognition and are applicable to many other audio classification problems.
To summarize, the definitive insight from this work serves as a guideline for future audio transfer learning tasks: When using a strong, pre-trained backbone (like MERT) on a limited dataset, simpler classification heads generalize better and are more reliable. The pre-trained model provides the necessary feature complexity, allowing the downstream classifier to remain lightweight and focused on the specific mapping task.